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Four-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells based on large-area perovskite solar cells utilizing low-cost copper semi-transparent electrode

Applied Physics A volume 128, Article number: 111 (2022) Cite this article

Abstract

This paper presents the fabrication of large-area four-terminal (4 T) perovskite-Si solar cells. Large-area semi-transparent perovskite solar cells were fabricated by utilizing a thin copper layer as the low-cost transparent electrode. Carrier selective contact (CSC)-based Si solar cell was also fabricated with molybdenum oxide (MoOx) hole selective layer. Large-area semi-transparent perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with active areas 1 cm2 and 2 cm2 showed a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.07% and 4.10%, respectively. The CSC Si solar cell displayed a PCE of 3.42%. The CSC-Si cell exhibited an efficiency of 2.24% under filtered light when placed under the semi-transparent perovskite top cell. The four-terminal effect was also demonstrated with a commercially available monocrystalline-Si solar cell. The efficiency of commercial c-Si solar cell was 14.11% under 100 mW cm−2 illumination and 10.08% under filtered light. The combined efficiency values of the 4 T configurations with perovskite top cell and the bottom CSC Si cell, and the commercial c-Si solar cell, were 7.31% and 15.15%, respectively. These values were more than the individual cell efficiencies.

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The authors acknowledge financial support through research grants DST/INSPIRE/04/2015/003204 and DST/NM/NT/2018/146.

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    Manas R. Samantaray & Nikhil Chander

  2. Thin-Film & Photovoltaics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, GEC Campus, Raipur-492015, Sejbahar, Chhattisgarh, India

    Dhriti S. Ghosh

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Samantaray, M.R., Ghosh, D.S. & Chander, N. Four-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells based on large-area perovskite solar cells utilizing low-cost copper semi-transparent electrode. Appl. Phys. A 128, 111 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-021-05234-w

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