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Prospects for metal halide perovskite-based tandem solar cells

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Over the past decade, metal halide perovskite photovoltaics have been a major focus of research, with single-junction perovskite solar cells evolving from an initial power conversion efficiency of 3.8% to reach 25.5%. The broad bandgap tunability of perovskites makes them versatile candidates as the subcell in a tandem photovoltaics architecture. Stacking photovoltaic absorbers with cascaded bandgaps in a multi-junction device can potentially overcome the Shockley–Queisser efficiency limit of 33.7% for single-junction solar cells. There is now intense activity in developing tandem solar cells that pair perovskite with either itself or with a variety of mature photovoltaic technologies such as silicon and Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS). In this review, we survey recent advances in the field and discuss its outlook.

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Fig. 1: Introduction of tandem PVs and metal halide perovskites.
Fig. 2: Strategies towards high-performance perovskite-based front subcells.
Fig. 3: Strategies towards high-performance perovskite-based rear subcells.
Fig. 4: Demonstration of perovskite-based tandem solar cells.

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Wang, R., Huang, T., Xue, J. et al. Prospects for metal halide perovskite-based tandem solar cells. Nat. Photonics 15, 411–425 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00809-8

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