Proceedings of Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics (ABXPV16)
Publication date: 14th December 2015
The recent development of organometallic halide perovskite solar cells has opened a new area of technology developments in the field of thin-film photovoltaics. The high power conversion efficiency potential has been well demonstrated already on single cells. Here we focus on the scalability towards modules with monolithically interconnected cells, the required deposition processes and potential applications.
A low temperature (<100°C) process has been developed for small band gap materials reaching top efficiencies of >16% for single cells, by optimizing both pre- and post-annealing conditions. This process is transferred onto larger glass substrates resulting in mechanically patterned monolithic modules of 160cm2 active area that have over 12% aperture area efficiency.
Another potential application area is created by the tunability of the bandgap of these organometallic perovskite materials. A mechanical 4-terminal stack of TFPV in combination with Si-PV is optically optimized in order to boost the overall performance. By looking at realistic physical and experimental limits, we find that the TFPV cell needs an optical gap of 1.8-2 eV, with Voc values above 1.4 V. The perovskite material with 40% Br is an ideal candidate for this TFPV, and we will show a stack design that limits the sub-gap optical losses of the complete cell. We will discuss what technological and scientific challenges needs to be addressed in order to make a successful mechanically stacked cell with efficiencies approaching 30%.
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