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Monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem cells: towards commercial reality

Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) R&D Project (2018 - 2021)

 

Investigators: The Australian National University: Prof. Kylie Catchpole, A/Prof. Klaus Weber, A/Prof. Tom White

Research Fellows: Dr Yiliang Wu (ANU)

Industry Partner: Jinko Solar

 

Summary

In this project, ANU is working with Jinko Solar to develop new approaches for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells.  The efficiency of standard silicon solar cells is limited due to the way they absorb light. This project will work to develop innovative, high efficiency solar cells using a combination of perovskite materials and silicon. Using perovskites will allow higher efficiency by making better use of blue light in the solar spectrum. ANU previously achieved a world record efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandems, and together with Jinko Solar will build on this work to produce larger, more efficient and more stable solar cells that have the potential for commercialisation.

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Photo of a 4 square centimetre monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell fabricated at ANU (Y. Wu, ANU).

ARENA project page: https://arena.gov.au/projects/development-stable-electrodes-perovskite-solar-cells/

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Research outputs:

  • ​Y. Wu, A. Fell, and K. J. Weber, “A step-by-step optimization of the c-Si bottom cell in monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem devices,” Solar Sol. RRL, 2, 1800193 (2018). DOI:      https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.201800193

  • Y. Wu, D. Yan, J. Peng, T. Duong, Y. Wan, P. Phang, … & K. J. Weber “Monolithic perovskite/silicon-homojunction tandem solar cell with over 22% efficiency,”  SiliconPV 2018 (the 8th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics), Lausanne, Mar 2018.

  • Y. Wu, A. Fell, & K. J. Weber, “A Step by step optimization of c-Si subcell in perovskite/c-Si monolithic tandem,” APSRC 2018 (Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference), Sydney, Dec 2018.

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