Enhancing electron diffusion length in narrow-bandgap perovskites for efficient monolithic perovskite tandem solar cells

Yang, Zhibin; Yu, Zhenhua; Wei, Haotong; Xiao, Xun; Ni, Zhenyi; Chen, Bo; Deng, Yehao; Habisreutinger, Severin N.; Chen, Xihan; Wang, Kang; Zhao, Jingjing; Rudd, Peter N.; Berry, Joseph J.; Beard, Matthew C.; Huang, Jinsong

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12513-x

Title: Enhancing electron diffusion length in narrow-bandgap perovskites for efficient monolithic perovskite tandem solar cells

Journal Article · Thu Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12513-x· OSTI ID:1570187

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Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Developing multijunction perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is an attractive route to boost PSC efficiencies to above the single-junction Shockley-Queisser limit. However, commonly used tin-based narrow-bandgap perovskites have shorter carrier diffusion lengths and lower absorption coefficient than lead-based perovskites, limiting the efficiency of perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells. In this work, we discover that the charge collection efficiency in tin-based PSCs is limited by a short diffusion length of electrons. Adding 0.03 molar percent of cadmium ions into tin-perovskite precursors reduce the background free hole concentration and electron trap density, yielding a long electron diffusion length of 2.72 ± 0.15 um. It increases the optimized thickness of narrow-bandgap perovskite films to 1000 nm, yielding exceptional stabilized efficiencies of 20.2 and 22.7% for single junction narrow-bandgap PSCs and monolithic perovskite-perovskite tandem cells, respectively. This work provides a promising method to enhance the optoelectronic properties of narrow-bandgap perovskites and unleash the potential of perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Office of Naval Research; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1570187

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5900-73936

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

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