A 2-terminal perovskite/silicon multijunction solar cell enabled by a silicon tunnel junction
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With the advent of efficient high-bandgap metal-halide perovskite photovoltaics, an opportunity exists to make perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. We fabricate a monolithic tandem by developing a silicon-based interband tunnel junction that facilitates majority-carrier charge recombination between the perovskite and silicon sub-cells. We demonstrate a 1 cm[superscript 2] 2-terminal monolithic perovskite/silicon multijunction solar cell with a V [subscript OC] as high as 1.65 V. We achieve a stable 13.7% power conversion efficiency with the perovskite as the current-limiting sub-cell, and identify key challenges for this device architecture to reach efficiencies over 25%.
Date issued
2015-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Manufacturing and ProductivityJournal
Applied Physics Letters
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Citation
Mailoa, Jonathan P. et al. “A 2-Terminal Perovskite/silicon Multijunction Solar Cell Enabled by a Silicon Tunnel Junction.” Applied Physics Letters 106.12 (2015): 121105. © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC
Version: Final published version
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0003-6951
1077-3118