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How To Quantify the Efficiency Potential of Neat Perovskite Films: Perovskite Semiconductors with an Implied Efficiency Exceeding 28.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Stolterfoht, Martin  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-2178
Grischek, Max 
Caprioglio, Pietro 
Wolff, Christian M 
Gutierrez-Partida, Emilio 

Abstract

Perovskite photovoltaic (PV) cells have demonstrated power conversion efficiencies (PCE) that are close to those of monocrystalline silicon cells; however, in contrast to silicon PV, perovskites are not limited by Auger recombination under 1-sun illumination. Nevertheless, compared to GaAs and monocrystalline silicon PV, perovskite cells have significantly lower fill factors due to a combination of resistive and non-radiative recombination losses. This necessitates a deeper understanding of the underlying loss mechanisms and in particular the ideality factor of the cell. By measuring the intensity dependence of the external open-circuit voltage and the internal quasi-Fermi level splitting (QFLS), the transport resistance-free efficiency of the complete cell as well as the efficiency potential of any neat perovskite film with or without attached transport layers are quantified. Moreover, intensity-dependent QFLS measurements on different perovskite compositions allows for disentangling of the impact of the interfaces and the perovskite surface on the non-radiative fill factor and open-circuit voltage loss. It is found that potassium-passivated triple cation perovskite films stand out by their exceptionally high implied PCEs > 28%, which could be achieved with ideal transport layers. Finally, strategies are presented to reduce both the ideality factor and transport losses to push the efficiency to the thermodynamic limit.

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Keywords

non-radiative interface recombination, perovskite solar cells, photoluminescence

Journal Title

Adv Mater

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Journal ISSN

0935-9648
1521-4095

Volume Title

32

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R023980/1)
Royal Society (UF150033)