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A Silicon-Singlet Fission Tandem Solar Cell Exceeding 100% External Quantum Efficiency with High Spectral Stability.

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Article

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Pazos-Outón, Luis M 
Lee, Ju Min 
Futscher, Moritz H 
Kirch, Anton 
Tabachnyk, Maxim 

Abstract

After 60 years of research, silicon solar cell efficiency saturated close to the theoretical limit, and radically new approaches are needed to further improve the efficiency. The use of tandem systems raises this theoretical power conversion efficiency limit from 34% to 45%. We present the advantageous spectral stability of using voltage-matched tandem solar cells with respect to their traditional series-connected counterparts and experimentally demonstrate how singlet fission can be used to produce simple voltage-matched tandems. Our singlet fission silicon-pentacene tandem solar cell shows efficient photocurrent addition. This allows the tandem system to benefit from carrier multiplication and to produce an external quantum efficiency exceeding 100% at the main absorption peak of pentacene.

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0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Journal Title

ACS Energy Lett

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Journal ISSN

2380-8195
2380-8195

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2

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Sponsorship
This work is part of the research programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The authors acknowledge financial support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). LMPO acknowledges the Cambridge Home European Scholarship Scheme (CHESS). MT acknowledges the Gates Cambridge Trust and the Winton Program for the Physics of Sustainability.