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Hybrid Perovskites: Prospects for Concentrator Solar Cells #MMPMID29721426
Lin Q; Wang Z; Snaith HJ; Johnston MB; Herz LM
Adv Sci (Weinh) 2018[Apr]; 5 (4): ä PMID29721426show ga
Perovskite solar cells have shown a meteoric rise of power conversion efficiency and a steady pace of improvements in their stability of operation. Such rapid progress has triggered research into approaches that can boost efficiencies beyond the Shockley?Queisser limit stipulated for a single?junction cell under normal solar illumination conditions. The tandem solar cell architecture is one concept here that has recently been successfully implemented. However, the approach of solar concentration has not been sufficiently explored so far for perovskite photovoltaics, despite its frequent use in the area of inorganic semiconductor solar cells. Here, the prospects of hybrid perovskites are assessed for use in concentrator solar cells. Solar cell performance parameters are theoretically predicted as a function of solar concentration levels, based on representative assumptions of charge?carrier recombination and extraction rates in the device. It is demonstrated that perovskite solar cells can fundamentally exhibit appreciably higher energy?conversion efficiencies under solar concentration, where they are able to exceed the Shockley?Queisser limit and exhibit strongly elevated open?circuit voltages. It is therefore concluded that sufficient material and device stability under increased illumination levels will be the only significant challenge to perovskite concentrator solar cell applications.