Understanding the physical properties of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications

J Huang, Y Yuan, Y Shao, Y Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
New photovoltaic materials have been searched for in the past decades for clean and
renewable solar energy conversion with an objective of reducing the levelized cost of …

Defects in metal triiodide perovskite materials towards high-performance solar cells: origin, impact, characterization, and engineering

C Ran, J Xu, W Gao, C Huang, S Dou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of solar cells (SCs) based on organic–inorganic hybrid metal
triiodide perovskite (MTP) materials holds great promise for next-generation photovoltaic …

Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses

A Richter, R Müller, J Benick, F Feldmann… - Nature energy, 2021 - nature.com
The photovoltaic industry is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells. Although
interdigitated back-contact cells have yielded the highest efficiency, both-sides-contacted …

High-specific-power flexible transition metal dichalcogenide solar cells

K Nassiri Nazif, A Daus, J Hong, N Lee, S Vaziri… - nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for flexible high-
specific-power photovoltaics due to their ultrahigh optical absorption coefficients, desirable …

Photovoltaic materials: Present efficiencies and future challenges

A Polman, M Knight, EC Garnett, B Ehrler, WC Sinke - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Photovoltaics, which directly convert solar energy into electricity, offer a
practical and sustainable solution to the challenge of meeting the increasing global energy …

Photon management to reduce energy loss in perovskite solar cells

C Chen, S Zheng, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the rapid development of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) over the past few years, the
conversion of solar energy into electricity is not efficient enough or cost-competitive yet. The …

Passivating contacts and tandem concepts: Approaches for the highest silicon-based solar cell efficiencies

M Hermle, F Feldmann, M Bivour… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The efficiency of photovoltaic energy conversion is a decisive factor for low-cost electricity
from renewable energies. In recent years, the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells in …

New-generation integrated devices based on dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells

S Yun, Y Qin, AR Uhl, N Vlachopoulos, M Yin… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The sharp increase of research passion in the new-generation solar cells in recent years
has resulted in a new trend in combining multiple types of energy devices in a single device …

A realistic methodology for 30% efficient perovskite solar cells

C Ma, NG Park - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Although the development of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) surpassed the power conversion
efficiencies (PCEs) of well-known thin-film solar cell technologies, approaching its …

Low-Temperature Crystallization Enables 21.9% Efficient Single-Crystal MAPbI3 Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

AY Alsalloum, B Turedi, X Zheng, S Mitra… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced rapidly in performance over the
past decade. Single-crystal PSCs based on micrometers-thick grain-boundary-free films with …