Efficient, stable silicon tandem cells enabled by anion-engineered wide-bandgap perovskites
Daehan Kim, Hee Joon Jung, Ik Jae Park, Bryon W. Larson, Sean P. Dunfield, Chuanxiao Xiao, Jekyung Kim, Jekyung Kim, Jinhui Tong, Passarut Boonmongkolras, Ji Su, Fei Zhang, Seong Ryul Pae, Min Kyu Kim, Seok Beom Kang, Vinayak P. Dravid, Joseph J. Berry, Jin Young Kim, Jin Young Kim, Kai Zhu, Dong Hoe Kim, Byungha Shin
Abstract
Maximizing the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells that can exceed the Shockley-Queisser single-cell limit requires a high-performing, stable perovskite top cell with a wide bandgap. We developed a stable perovskite solar cell with a bandgap of ~1.7 electron volts that retained more than 80% of its initial PCE of 20.7% after 1000 hours of continuous illumination. Anion engineering of phenethylammonium-based two-dimensional (2D) additives was critical for controlling the structural and electrical properties of the 2D passivation layers based on a lead iodide framework. The high PCE of 26.7% of a monolithic two-terminal wide-bandgap perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell was made possible by the ideal combination of spectral responses of the top and bottom cells.