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Organic-Inorganic Perovskite for Highly Efficient Tandem Solar Cells

고효율 적층형 태양전지를 위한 유무기 페로브스카이트

  • Park, Ik Jae (Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong Hoe (Department of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University)
  • 박익재 (서울대학교 재료공학부) ;
  • 김동회 (세종대학교 나노신소재공학과)
  • Received : 2019.06.10
  • Accepted : 2019.06.17
  • Published : 2019.06.30
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Abstract

To overcome the theoretical efficiency of single-junction solar cells (> 30 %), tandem solar cells (or multi-junction solar cells) is considered as a strong nominee because of their excellent light utilization. Organic-inorganic halide perovskite has been regarded as a promising candidate material for next-generation tandem solar cell due to not only their excellent optoelectronic properties but also their bandgap-tune-ability and low-temperature process-possibility. As a result, they have been adopted either as a wide-bandgap top cell combined with narrow-bandgap silicon or CuInxGa(1-x)Se2 bottom cells or for all-perovskite tandem solar cells using narrow- and wide-bandgap perovskites. To successfully transition perovskite materials from for single junction to tandem, substantial efforts need to focus on fabricating the high quality wide- and narrow-bandgap perovskite materials and semi-transparent electrode/recombination layer. In this paper, we present an overview of the current research and our outlook regarding perovskite-based tandem solar technology. Several key challenges discussed are: 1) a wide-bandgap perovskite for top-cell in multi-junction tandem solar cells; 2) a narrow-bandgap perovskite for bottom-cell in all-perovskite tandem solar cells, and 3) suitable semi-transparent conducting layer for efficient electrode or recombination layer in tandem solar cells.

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