Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS
Abstract
Tandem solar cells coupling narrow- and wide-band-gap thin-film polycrystalline absorbers are attractive for achieving ultrahigh efficiency with low manufacturing cost. For established narrow-band-gap CIGS thin-film bottom cells, a challenge is to develop highly efficient polycrystalline wide-band-gap top cells. Here, we demonstrate a 1.68-eV (FA0.65MA0.20Cs0.15)Pb(I0.8Br0.2)3 wide-band-gap perovskite solar cell with an efficiency of ~20% enabled by using PEAI and Pb(SCN)2 complementary additives in the perovskite precursor. The coupling of PEA+ and SCN- provides a synergistic effect that overcomes growth challenges with either additive individually and improves perovskite film quality with enhanced crystallinity, reduced formation of excess PbI2 (in comparison to using Pb(SCN)2 additive alone), lower defect density and energetic disorder, and an improved carrier mobility (~47 cm2 V-1s-1) and lifetime (~2.9 us). When coupling a semi-transparent 1.68-eV perovskite top cell fabricated by this approach with a 1.12-eV CIGS bottom cell, we achieve 25.9%-efficient polycrystalline perovskite/CIGS 4-terminal thin-film tandem solar cells.
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1638875
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1545260
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-74396
Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4351; S2542435119302107; PII: S2542435119302107
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- N000141812155; -EE00025810; 30296; NRF-2017R1A4A1015022; FOA-0000990; AC36-08GO28308
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Joule
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Joule Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4351
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; perovskite solar cells; tandem; CIGS; transport; carrier lifetime; defect density
Citation Formats
Kim, Dong Hoe, Muzzillo, Christopher P., Tong, Jinhui, Palmstrom, Axel F., Larson, Bryon W., Choi, Chungseok, Harvey, Steven P., Glynn, Stephen, Whitaker, James B., Zhang, Fei, Li, Zhen, Lu, Haipeng, van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., Berry, Joseph J., Mansfield, Lorelle M., Huang, Yu, Yan, Yanfa, and Zhu, Kai. Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2019.04.012.
Kim, Dong Hoe, Muzzillo, Christopher P., Tong, Jinhui, Palmstrom, Axel F., Larson, Bryon W., Choi, Chungseok, Harvey, Steven P., Glynn, Stephen, Whitaker, James B., Zhang, Fei, Li, Zhen, Lu, Haipeng, van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., Berry, Joseph J., Mansfield, Lorelle M., Huang, Yu, Yan, Yanfa, & Zhu, Kai. Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.04.012
Kim, Dong Hoe, Muzzillo, Christopher P., Tong, Jinhui, Palmstrom, Axel F., Larson, Bryon W., Choi, Chungseok, Harvey, Steven P., Glynn, Stephen, Whitaker, James B., Zhang, Fei, Li, Zhen, Lu, Haipeng, van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., Berry, Joseph J., Mansfield, Lorelle M., Huang, Yu, Yan, Yanfa, and Zhu, Kai. Mon .
"Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.04.012.
@article{osti_1638875,
title = {Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS},
author = {Kim, Dong Hoe and Muzzillo, Christopher P. and Tong, Jinhui and Palmstrom, Axel F. and Larson, Bryon W. and Choi, Chungseok and Harvey, Steven P. and Glynn, Stephen and Whitaker, James B. and Zhang, Fei and Li, Zhen and Lu, Haipeng and van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. and Berry, Joseph J. and Mansfield, Lorelle M. and Huang, Yu and Yan, Yanfa and Zhu, Kai},
abstractNote = {Tandem solar cells coupling narrow- and wide-band-gap thin-film polycrystalline absorbers are attractive for achieving ultrahigh efficiency with low manufacturing cost. For established narrow-band-gap CIGS thin-film bottom cells, a challenge is to develop highly efficient polycrystalline wide-band-gap top cells. Here, we demonstrate a 1.68-eV (FA0.65MA0.20Cs0.15)Pb(I0.8Br0.2)3 wide-band-gap perovskite solar cell with an efficiency of ~20% enabled by using PEAI and Pb(SCN)2 complementary additives in the perovskite precursor. The coupling of PEA+ and SCN- provides a synergistic effect that overcomes growth challenges with either additive individually and improves perovskite film quality with enhanced crystallinity, reduced formation of excess PbI2 (in comparison to using Pb(SCN)2 additive alone), lower defect density and energetic disorder, and an improved carrier mobility (~47 cm2 V-1s-1) and lifetime (~2.9 us). When coupling a semi-transparent 1.68-eV perovskite top cell fabricated by this approach with a 1.12-eV CIGS bottom cell, we achieve 25.9%-efficient polycrystalline perovskite/CIGS 4-terminal thin-film tandem solar cells.},
doi = {10.1016/j.joule.2019.04.012},
journal = {Joule},
number = 7,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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