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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…
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Recent studies have investigated novel strategies to further improve the limited Voc of CdTe solar cells via increased carrier lifetime and doping density of CdTe thin films. Among various metal oxides, aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is a promising…
Thanks to their excellent properties of low cost, lightweight, portability, and conformity, flexible perovskite-based tandem solar cells show great potentials for energy harvesting applications, with flexible perovskite/c-silicon tandem…
Perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) have attracted extensive studies due to their high power conversion efficiency (PCE) with low-cost in both raw material and processes. However, there remain obstacles that hinder the way to its…
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Tandem perovskite solar cells beckon as lower cost alternatives to conventional single junction solar cells, with all-perovskite tandem photovoltaic architectures showing power conversion efficiencies up to 26.4%. Solution-processing…
Though the common metal electrode-based perovskite solar cells have achieved a power conversion efficiency of >25%, they also play a crucial role in accelerating the degradation of the cells. In this study, we investigated phase transition…
Low cost, highly efficient, and stable solar cells demand low temperature processing, less stringent criteria on materials, and possibility of dynamic recovery from long term degradation: a combination of features unachievable from the…
Metal halide perovskites are of great interest for application in semitransparent solar cells due to their tunable bandgap and high performance. However, fabricating high-efficiency perovskite semitransparent devices with high average…
Efficient semi-transparent solar cells can trigger the adoption of building integrated photovoltaics. Halide perovskites are particularly suitable in this respect owing to their tunable bandgap. Main drawbacks in the development of…
The stability of perovskite solar cells is closely related to the defects in perovskite crystals, and there are a large number of crystal defects in the perovskite thin films prepared by the solution method, which is not conducive to the…
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 demonstrate reduced surface recombination velocity (SRV) and enhanced power-conversion efficiency (PCE) in mixed-cation mixed-halide perovskite solar cells by using (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APTMS) as a surface passivator. We show…
Organic solar cells have reached record efficiencies with non-fullerene acceptors, yet their translation to industrial printing remains a critical bottleneck. Here we report the highest efficiency achieved for a fully…
The present work critically investigates the influence of low melting glasses on the fabrication of metal contacts, with the goal of advancing applications of bismuth based oxide glass and screen printed silver contacts for use in…
This work emphasizes the potential of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells for increased power conversion efficiencies. By employing crystalline silicon (c-Si) as the bottom cell, particularly with p-type PERC technology, there are…
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