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Low Pressure Vapor-assisted Solution Process for Tunable Band Gap Pinhole-free Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Films
Published on: September 8, 2017
Uniform phase distribution of wide bandgap perovskite for high-performance perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
Zhaoyang Han1,2, Zhenhan Wang1,2, Zhengchang Xia1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics and Chip Technologies, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Metal halide perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells offer a promising pathway towards surpassing the efficiency limits of single-junction devices, and the focus remains on the wide bandgap (WBG) perovskite top cell optimization. Here, by incorporating melamine additive into a rubidium-alloyed perovskite composition, we suppress film phase separation and inhomogeneity and enhance charge carrier mobility. Consequently, our modified 1.68 eV WBG perovskite solar cells exhibit superior charge transport and minimized non-radiative recombination losses, achieving state-of-the-art performance with open circuit voltage (VOC) of 1.31 V, fill factor of 86.4% and efficiency of 25%. This also derives an efficient two-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem cell with stabilized efficiency of 33.5% and high VOC of 2.02 V. Both the single-junction and tandem devices show noticeable operational stability that the WBG cells maintain 80% of initial efficiency (T80) after over 3200 hours of 1-sun illumination under 65°C (ISOS-L-2), while the tandem device survive T90 lifetime exceeding 1100 hours under the same conditions.
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