Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Enhanced optical path and electron diffusion length enable high-efficiency perovskite tandems

  • Bin Chen,
  • Se-Woong Baek,
  • Yi Hou,
  • Erkan Aydin,
  • Michele De Bastiani,
  • Benjamin Scheffel,
  • Andrew Proppe,
  • Ziru Huang,
  • Mingyang Wei,
  • Ya-Kun Wang,
  • Eui-Hyuk Jung,
  • Thomas G. Allen,
  • Emmanuel Van Kerschaver,
  • F. Pelayo García de Arquer,
  • Makhsud I. Saidaminov,
  • Sjoerd Hoogland,
  • Stefaan De Wolf,
  • Edward H. Sargent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15077-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Metal-halide perovskite based tandem solar cells are appealing but making a high efficiency device is not trivial. Here Chen et al. increase the carrier collection in the perovskite layer and largely enhance the efficiency in tandem cells when combined with colloidal quantum dot or silicon layers.