Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells for tandems with silicon and CIGS

Colin D. Bailie, M. Greyson Christoforo, Jonathan P. Mailoa, Andrea R. Bowring, Eva L. Unger, William H. Nguyen, Julian Burschka, Norman Pellet, Jungwoo Z. Lee, Michael Grätzel, Rommel Noufi, Tonio Buonassisi, Alberto Salleo, Michael D. McGehee

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Abstract

© 2015 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A promising approach for upgrading the performance of an established low-bandgap solar technology without adding much cost is to deposit a high bandgap polycrystalline semiconductor on top to make a tandem solar cell. We use a transparent silver nanowire electrode on perovskite solar cells to achieve a semi-transparent device. We place the semi-transparent cell in a mechanically-stacked tandem configuration onto copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) and low-quality multicrystalline silicon (Si) to achieve solid-state polycrystalline tandem solar cells with a net improvement in efficiency over the bottom cell alone. This work paves the way for integrating perovskites into a low-cost and high-efficiency (>25%) tandem cell.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)956-963
Number of pages8
JournalEnergy Environ. Sci.
Volume8
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

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