Optical Simulation-Aided Design and Engineering of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells.
Yifeng ZhaoKunal DattaNga PhungAndrea E A BracescoValerio ZardettoGiulia PaggiaroHanchen LiuMohua FardousiRudi SantbergenPaul Procel MoyaCan HanGuangtao YangJunke WangDong ZhangBas T van GorkomTom P A van der PolMichael VerhageMartijn M WienkWilhelmus Erwin M M KesselsArthur WeeberMiro ZemanLuana MazzarellaMariadriana CreatoreRené A J JanssenOlindo IsabellaPublished in: ACS applied energy materials (2023)
Monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells have attracted enormous research attention and have achieved efficiencies above 30%. This work describes the development of monolithic tandem solar cells based on silicon heterojunction (SHJ) bottom- and perovskite top-cells and highlights light management techniques assisted by optical simulation. We first engineered ( i )a-Si:H passivating layers for (100)-oriented flat c-Si surfaces and combined them with various ( n )a-Si:H, ( n )nc-Si:H, and ( n )nc-SiO x :H interfacial layers for SHJ bottom-cells. In a symmetrical configuration, a long minority carrier lifetime of 16.9 ms was achieved when combining ( i )a-Si:H bilayers with ( n )nc-Si:H (extracted at the minority carrier density of 10 15 cm -3 ). The perovskite sub-cell uses a photostable mixed-halide composition and surface passivation strategies to minimize energetic losses at charge-transport interfaces. This allows tandem efficiencies above 23% (a maximum of 24.6%) to be achieved using all three types of ( n )-layers. Observations from experimentally prepared devices and optical simulations indicate that both ( n )nc-SiO x :H and ( n )nc-Si:H are promising for use in high-efficiency tandem solar cells. This is possible due to minimized reflection at the interfaces between the perovskite and SHJ sub-cells by optimized interference effects, demonstrating the applicability of such light management techniques to various tandem structures.
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