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30 May 2022 Improving perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with optical simulations
Klaus Jaeger, Johannes Sutter, Philipp Tockhorn, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker
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Abstract
Optical simulations of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells show that nanotexturing both sides of the perovskite top cell yields the strongest antireflective effect. Cells with an intermediate texture in-between the perovskite and silicon sub cells perform comparably to configurations with a fully planar top cell. However, in experiment intermediate-textured solar cells perform slightly better than their planar counterparts. A numerical sensitivity analysis shows that this can be attributed to the thickness of a silicon oxide layer in-between the two sub cells: this thickness affects the optics for a fully planar top cell, but does not affect the performance for intermediate texturing.
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Klaus Jaeger, Johannes Sutter, Philipp Tockhorn, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Steve Albrecht, and Christiane Becker "Improving perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with optical simulations", Proc. SPIE PC12150, Photonics for Solar Energy Systems IX, PC1215001 (30 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2621255
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KEYWORDS
Tandem solar cells

Perovskite

Optical simulations

Silicon

Solar cells

Optics manufacturing

Oxides

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