Investigating the influence of the counter Si-cell on the optoelectronic performance of high-efficiency mono-lithically perovskites/silicon tandem cells under various optical sources

Abstract

owadays, tandem structures have become a valuable competitor to conventional silicon solar cells, especially for perovskite over silicon, as metal halides surpassed Si with tunable bandgaps, high absorption coefficient, low deposition, and preparation costs. This led to a remarkable enhancement in the overall efficiency of the whole cell and its characteristics. Consequently, this expands the usage of photovoltaic technology in various fields of applications not only under conventional light source spectrum in outdoor areas, i.e., AM1.5G, but also under artificial light sources found indoors with broadband intensity values, such as Internet of things (IoTs) applications to name a few. We introduce a numerical model to analyze perovskite/Si tandem cells (PSSTCs) using both crystalline silicon (c-Si) and hy-drogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) experimentally validated as base cells. All proposed layers have been studied with J–V characteristics and energy band diagrams under AM1.5G by using SCAPS-1D software version 3.7.7. Thereupon, the proposed architectures were tested under various artificial lighting spectra. The proposed structures of Li₄Ti₅O₁₂/CsPbCl₃/MAPbBr₃/CH₃NH₃PbI₃/Si recorded a maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.25% for c-Si and 17.02% for a-Si: H, with nearly 7% enhancement concerning the Si bare cell in both cases.

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