Efficient Bifacial Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells Using Down‐Conversion 2D Perovskite Nanoplatelets–Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Composite Film

Abstract

Semitransparent perovskite solar cells (ST‐PSCs) hold significant appeal for various applications in smart windows, multijunction tandem devices, bifacial and chargeable devices, etc. Unfortunately, to possess high transparency, the perovskite layer in the ST‐PSCs must be kept relatively thin (<400 nm), which in turn causes insufficient light absorption and thus inferior device performance. Herein, a 2D perovskite nanoplatelets (NPLs)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) composite thin layer is applied in the ST‐PSCs to solve these problems. Thanks to its dual function of down‐conversion (DC) effect, converting high‐energy UV photons into low‐energy visible photons to enhance the photocurrent, and interfacial passivation, reducing the nonradiative recombination at the interface, the 2D NPLs–PMMA‐based devices with the different average visible transmittance (AVT) values of perovskite film demonstrate significantly improved power‐conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to the pristine devices, and remarkable UV stability, retaining over 77% of initial PCE after aging under continuous UV illumination for 280 h. More importantly, the full bifacial ST‐PSCs using a transparent MoO3/Au/MoO3 rear electrode exhibits a record PCE of 14.26% and 10.65% with a whole device AVT of 19.4% and 26.9%, respectively, which are among the highest performing ST‐PSCs of the kind reported to date.

Keywords

• 2D perovskite nanoplatelets
• bifacials
• down conversions
• semitransparent perovskite solar cells
• UV stabilities