Recent advances on monolithic perovskite-organic tandem solar cells

Abstract

Perovskite-organic tandem solar cells (TSCs) have emerged as a groundbreaking technology in the realm of photovoltaics, showcasing remarkable enhancements in efficiency and significant potential for practical applications. Perovskite-organic TSCs also exhibit facile fabrication surpassing that of all-perovskite or all-organic TSCs, attributing to the advantageous utilization of orthogonal solvents enabling sequential solution process for each subcell. The perovskite-organic TSCs capitalize on the complementary light absorption characteristics of perovskite and organic materials. There is a promising prospect of achieving further enhanced power conversion efficiencies by covering a broad range of the solar spectrum with optimized perovskite absorber, organic semiconductors as well as the interconnecting layer’s optical and electrical properties. This review comprehensively analyzes the recent advancements in perovskite-organic TSCs, highlighting the synergistic effects of combining perovskite with a low opencircuit voltage deficit, organic materials with broader light absorption, and interconnecting layers with reduced optical and electrical loss. Meanwhile, the underlying device architecture design, regulation strategies, and key challenges facing the high performance of the perovskite-organic TSCs are also discussed.

Keywords

interconnecting layer / narrow-bandgap organic solar cells / recombination layer / tandem solar cells / wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells

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