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Synergistic Passivation of Perovskite Absorber Films for Efficient Four‐Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Yan Li, Shudi Qiu, Bohao Yu, Jincheng Huang, Jufeng Qiu, Cuiling Zhang, Fei Guo, Yuzhao Yang, Yaohua Mai

2022Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research15 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A high‐performance semitransparent perovskite solar cell (PSC) with small photovoltage loss is highly desired to achieve efficient and stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Herein, a synergistic passivation strategy is developed to suppress the electronic defects at both the grain boundary and surface of a perovskite layer (Cs 0.05 FA 0.82 MA 0.13 Pb(I 2.86 Br 0.14 )). It is found that the incorporation of a small amount of sodium fluoride (NaF) into perovskite precursor solution modulates the crystallization process, which results in large crystal grains with enhanced conductivity at the grain boundaries. Meanwhile, a thin 2D perovskite layer is constructed on the surface of the 3D perovskite film by solution coating a layer of phenethylammonium iodide (PEAI), which passivates the surface defects and improves the stability of perovskite films. As a consequence, the optimized semitransparent p–i–n PSC delivers a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 17.55% with an open‐circuit voltage of 1.11 V. Combining the semitransparent PSCs with a silicon cell, the efficiency of the four‐terminal perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells reaches a PCE of 23.82%.

Topics & Concepts

PassivationPerovskite (structure)Materials scienceGrain boundaryTandemEnergy conversion efficiencyLayer (electronics)SiliconPerovskite solar cellCrystallizationCrystalline siliconChemical engineeringOptoelectronicsNanotechnologyComposite materialMicrostructureEngineeringPerovskite Materials and ApplicationsConducting polymers and applicationsOrganic Electronics and Photovoltaics