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Nanotexturing enables perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 29.8% efficiency

Introducing nanotextured interfaces simultaneously increases the light-harvesting ability, optoelectronic properties and fabrication yield of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. In this way, the efficiency limit of conventional silicon solar cells is surpassed, paving the way to higher-performance photovoltaics.

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Fig. 1: Nanotextured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.

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This is a summary of: Tockhorn, P. et al. Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells. Nat. Nanotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01228-8 (2022).

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Nanotexturing enables perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 29.8% efficiency. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 1134–1135 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01229-7

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