Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells

FH Isikgor, S Zhumagali, LV T. Merino… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Metal-oxide-based charge-transport layers have played a pivotal role in the progress of
perovskite solar cells. Yet metal-oxide/perovskite interfaces are often highly defective, owing …

Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

L Duan, D Walter, N Chang, J Bullock, D Kang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Driven by the growing dominance of balance of system costs in photovoltaic installations,
next-generation solar cell technologies must deliver significant increases in power …

Interface passivation for 31.25%-efficient perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

XY Chin, D Turkay, JA Steele, S Tabean, S Eswara… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Silicon solar cells are approaching their theoretical efficiency limit of 29%. This limitation can
be exceeded with advanced device architectures, where two or more solar cells are stacked …

Efficient and stable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through contact displacement by MgFx

J Liu, M De Bastiani, E Aydin, GT Harrison, Y Gao… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The performance of perovskite solar cells with inverted polarity (pin) is still limited by
recombination at their electron extraction interface, which also lowers the power conversion …

Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells

SM Park, M Wei, N Lempesis, W Yu, T Hossain… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) promise enhanced operating stability compared to
their normal-structure counterparts,–. To improve efficiency further, it is crucial to combine …

Rare-earth doping in nanostructured inorganic materials

B Zheng, J Fan, B Chen, X Qin, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

Methylammonium-free wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites for tandem photovoltaics

AJ Ramadan, RDJ Oliver, MB Johnston… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the performance of solar cells based on metal halide perovskite
semiconductors has skyrocketed, now rivalling established technologies such as crystalline …

Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry

C Ballif, FJ Haug, M Boccard, PJ Verlinden… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and
costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain …

Defect engineering in wide-bandgap perovskites for efficient perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

G Yang, Z Ni, ZJ Yu, BW Larson, Z Yu, B Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Wide-bandgap (WBG) mixed-halide perovskites show promise of realizing efficient
tandem solar cells but at present suffer from large open-circuit voltage loss and the …

Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

P Tockhorn, J Sutter, A Cruz, P Wagner, K Jäger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells offer the possibility of overcoming the power
conversion efficiency limit of conventional silicon solar cells. Various textured tandem …