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The last decade has witnessed enormous research in the field of perovskite solar cells, and state-of-the-art efficiency is approaching the performance limit. However, the effect of ambient temperature on the performance of these solar cells has not been studied thoroughly. Given that, here, we evaluate the performance of perovskite ((MA0.13FA0.87)PbI3) solar cells as a function of temperature in the range of 0–50 °C. We perform self-consistent temperature-dependent drift–diffusion simulations for the same. It is interesting to observe that despite an increase in the bandgap with the temperature, the open-circuit voltage reduces. Moreover, the open-circuit voltage reduces linearly at the rate of approximately 0.4 mV/°C. The result is contrasting to Si solar cells, where the rate of reduction of open-circuit potential is 2 mV/°C.
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Agarwal, S., Munda, A.K., Pandey, V., Kumar, K. (2021). Performance Evaluation of Perovskite Solar Cells at Elevated Temperatures. In: Sabut, S.K., Ray, A.K., Pati, B., Acharya, U.R. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Communication, Circuits, and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 728. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4866-0_16
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