This study, which took place in Joule, demonstrates a simple additive strategy to suppress halide segregation. Here, we demonstrate 28.2%-efficient and stable perovskite/Si monolithic tandem solar cells

This work was performed in collaboration with Ilke Celik from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

This study demonstrates double-side passivation of the nickel oxide/perovskite interface by incorporating N719 organometallic dye molecule, which enables 26.2% efficient textured monolithic p-i-n perovskite/silicon solar cells. This study was published in October's issue of Advanced Energy Materials.

Our perspective on the Electrode Metallization for industrial scale Perovskite/Silicon Tandems is published now in Progress in Photovoltaics. The focus of the study reveals the challenges and opportunities of scaled metallization in terms of grid design to mitigate the power losses, adopting state-of-the-art screen-printed metallization as well as cost-effective alternate metallization routes and their viability for industrial applications.

Ultrathin solar cells can be a path forward to low-cost photovoltaics due to their reduced material consumption and shorter required deposition times. With excellent surface passivation, such devices may feature higher open-circuit voltages (V_OC). However, their short-circuit current density (J_SC) may be reduced due to decreased light absorption. This mandates implementation of efficient light-trapping structures. To design efficient ultrathin solar cells that combine surface-passivation and light-trapping features, accurate 3-D modeling is necessary. To this end, we have developed a novel 3-D opto-electrical finite-element model to analyze the performance of ultrathin solar cells. We apply our model to the case of ultrathin (< 500 nm) chalcogenide solar cells (copper indium gallium (di) selenide, CIGSe), rear-passivated with nanostructured Al₂O₃ to circumvent optical and electrical losses, resulting in an absolute PCE enhancement of 3.9%, compared to cells without passivation structure. 

Perovskite solar cells are an emerging photovoltaic technology that is gathering huge attention in the solar community for its power conversion efficiency. Recently, the coupling between the perovskite and the silicon technologies in the tandem configuration boosted even further this power conversion efficiency, reaching record values for terrestrial applications. However, several degradation mechanisms in the perovskite are negatively affecting the stability of this technology, questioning if successful commercialization is possible. At KPVLAB we are pioneering the outdoor testing of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells to investigate, understand, and improve their stability.

 

This study demonstrates 27%-efficient perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells in n–i–p configuration by developing novel electron and hole selective contacts, which combine high broadband transparency with efficient charge extraction. This study took place in the June issue of Energy & Environmental Science.

This study, which was recently published in Joule, reports a concurrent cationic and anionic perovskite defect passivation strategy using the phenformin hydrochloride molecule boosting the performance of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.

This study, which takes place Advanced Materials Interfaces reports metallic lithium contact, applied to crystalline silicon solar cell and proved to be an excellent electron-selective, hole-blocking transport layer with an efficiency of 19%.

The review which is published in Nanophotonics focuses on light-trapping schemes for efficient photon recycling in perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

An analytical solution of photoluminescence reabsorption (PLr) is used to determine the intrinsic radiative carrier recombination rate of metal-halide perovskite films. Simulation of its impact on the quasi-Fermi-level splitting (QFSL) reveals it is detrimental at high but advantageous at low nonradiative recombination rates. Importantly, neglecting PLr results in overestimation of the effective nonradiative recombination rate in perovskite solar cells.

This study, which came out in Joule, reveals that once the PCE approaches a practical upper limit, work on the control and mitigation of the module temperature can be equally or even more significant than costly marginal gains in PCE.

This review, which took place in Advanced Materials, provides a comprehensive overview of the tin-oxide electron-selective layered for champion perovskite solar cells.

The MAPbI3 polycrystalline films with 25.15um charge carrier diffusion length and grain size of 11 um are achieved by slot-die method assisted by KSCN. Based on the films, the planar solar cells with all layers being deposited by scalable methods achieve an efficiency of 21.38%.

This study, which takes place in Advanced Materials Technologies, demonstrates PLD‐grown IZRO transparent electrode on semi‐transparent perovskite solar cells.

In this publication, which took place in Nature Energy, we investigate the influence of scattered and reflected light from the ground (albedo) on the performance of the bifacial tandems with different perovskite bandgaps.