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Title: Tin–lead halide perovskites with improved thermal and air stability for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells

Abstract

We report the fabrication of monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells with a stabilized power conversion efficiency of 19.1% and demonstrate improved thermal, atmospheric, and operational stability of the tin–lead perovskite (FA0.75Cs0.25Sn0.5Pb0.5I3) used as the low gap absorber.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [6];  [4];  [7]
  1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science; National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science
  3. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Lab.
  4. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
  5. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  6. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  7. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science; Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); European Union (EU)
OSTI Identifier:
1490726
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; N00014-17-1-2212; 699935
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 25 ENERGY STORAGE

Citation Formats

Leijtens, Tomas, Prasanna, Rohit, Bush, Kevin A., Eperon, Giles E., Raiford, James A., Gold-Parker, Aryeh, Wolf, Eli J., Swifter, Simon A., Boyd, Caleb C., Wang, Hsin-Ping, Toney, Michael F., Bent, Stacey F., and McGehee, Michael D. Tin–lead halide perovskites with improved thermal and air stability for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1039/c8se00314a.
Leijtens, Tomas, Prasanna, Rohit, Bush, Kevin A., Eperon, Giles E., Raiford, James A., Gold-Parker, Aryeh, Wolf, Eli J., Swifter, Simon A., Boyd, Caleb C., Wang, Hsin-Ping, Toney, Michael F., Bent, Stacey F., & McGehee, Michael D. Tin–lead halide perovskites with improved thermal and air stability for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00314a
Leijtens, Tomas, Prasanna, Rohit, Bush, Kevin A., Eperon, Giles E., Raiford, James A., Gold-Parker, Aryeh, Wolf, Eli J., Swifter, Simon A., Boyd, Caleb C., Wang, Hsin-Ping, Toney, Michael F., Bent, Stacey F., and McGehee, Michael D. Tue . "Tin–lead halide perovskites with improved thermal and air stability for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00314a. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1490726.
@article{osti_1490726,
title = {Tin–lead halide perovskites with improved thermal and air stability for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells},
author = {Leijtens, Tomas and Prasanna, Rohit and Bush, Kevin A. and Eperon, Giles E. and Raiford, James A. and Gold-Parker, Aryeh and Wolf, Eli J. and Swifter, Simon A. and Boyd, Caleb C. and Wang, Hsin-Ping and Toney, Michael F. and Bent, Stacey F. and McGehee, Michael D.},
abstractNote = {We report the fabrication of monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells with a stabilized power conversion efficiency of 19.1% and demonstrate improved thermal, atmospheric, and operational stability of the tin–lead perovskite (FA0.75Cs0.25Sn0.5Pb0.5I3) used as the low gap absorber.},
doi = {10.1039/c8se00314a},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
number = 11,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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