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Organic-inorganic halide perovskite materials have emerged as attractive alternatives to conventional solar cell building blocks. Their high light absorption coefficients and long diffusion lengths suggest high power conversion efficiencies…
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have been established as good candidate materials for emerging photovoltaics, with device efficiencies of over 22 % being reported. There are currently only two organic cations, methylammonium and…
Perovskite solar cells have achieved a substantial breakthrough via advanced interface engineerings. Reports have emphasized that combining the hybrid perovskites with Lewis base and graphene improve the performance; the underlying…
Solution-processed quantum dots (QDs) have a high potential for fabricating low cost, flexible and large-scale solar energy harvesting devices. It has recently been demonstrated that hybrid devices employing a single monovalent cation…
Deposition of perovskite thin films by antisolvent engineering is one of the most common methods employed in perovskite photovoltaics research. Herein, we report on a general method that allows the fabrication of highly efficient perovskite…
Lead poisoning and notorious ambient instability in lead-based halide perovskites pave the way for the exploration of alternative materials for affordable and efficient solar cell fabrication. An important prerequisite to this end is the…
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites for photovoltaics have attracted research interest due to their unique material properties, but suffered from poor material stability. In this work, we investigated the surface phase diagrams of…
Inorganic semiconductors based on heavy pnictogen cations (Sb3+ and Bi3+) have gained significant attention as potential nontoxic and stable alternatives to lead-halide perovskites for solar cell applications. A limitation of these novel…
Recent observations indicated that the photoelectric conversion properties of perovskite materials are intimately related to the presence of superlattice structures and other unusual nanoscale features in them. The low dimensional or mixed…
We demonstrate four and two-terminal perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells with ideally matched bandgaps. We develop an infrared absorbing 1.2eV bandgap perovskite, $FA_{0.75}Cs_{0.25}Sn_{0.5}Pb_{0.5}I_3$, that can deliver 14.8 %…
There are recent investigations regarding tandem solar cells with a top perovskite cell and a bottom silicon one with a potential of > 25% power conversion efficiency. Because of still high production costs of silicon cells it is believed…
We analysed perovskite CH3NH3PbI3-xClx inverted planner structure solar cell with nickel oxide (NiO) and spiro-MeOTAD as hole conductors. This structure is free from electron transport layer. The thickness is optimized for NiO and…
The recent reaching of 20% of conversion efficiency by solar cells based on metal hybrid perovskites (MHP), e.g., the methylammonium (MA) lead iodide, CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3), has excited the scientific community devoted to the photovoltaics…
In this study, the optoelectronic properties of a monolithically integrated series-connected tandem solar cell are simulated. Following the large success of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, which have recently demonstrated large…
Cuprous oxide has been conceived as a potential alternative to traditional organic hole transport layers in hybrid halide perovskite-based solar cells. Device simulations predict record efficiencies using this semiconductor, but…
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with superior performance have been recognized as a potential candidate in photovoltaic technologies. However, the defects in active perovskite layer induce non-radiative recombination which restricts the…
Perovskite semiconductors have demonstrated outstanding external luminescence quantum yields, enabling high power conversion efficiencies (PCE). However, the precise conditions to advance to an efficiency regime above monocrystalline…
Nitride perovskites are an emerging class of materials predicted to exhibit diverse functional properties, yet remain underexplored due to synthesis challenges of oxygen-free nitrides. Recently, LaMoN$_3$ has been reported as an oxygen-free…
The wide band gap methylammonium lead bromide perovskite is promising for applications in tandem solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Despite its utility, there is only a limited understanding of its reproducibility and stability. Herein,…
In the last few years there is an unprecedented progress in the increase of the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Evidently, further advances of the efficiency of these devices will depend on the constraints imposed by…