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Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Davide Sacchetto, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Gianluca Cattaneo, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Tandem devices combining perovskite and silicon solar cells are promising candidates to achieve power conversion efficiencies above 30% at reasonable costs. State-of-the-art monolithic two-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem devices have so far featured sil ...

2018

Spectrally resolved nonlinearity and temperature dependence of perovskite solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

An accurate electrical device characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is an important prerequisite for further improvement and industrial transfer of this promising photovoltaic technology. In this work, we study t ...

Elsevier2017

Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites: Perspectives for Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Stefaan De Wolf, Franz-Josef Haug, Jakub Holovsky, Björn Niesen, Martin Ledinsky

We investigate the efficiency potential of organic-inorganic halide perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells, a new class of photovoltaic devices targeting long-term cost reductions by ultrahigh conversion efficiencies. Methyl ammonium lead triiod ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Sputtered rear electrode with broadband transparency for perovskite solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Guy Joseph Günter Dubuis, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Monica Morales Masis, Björn Niesen, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Due to their high efficiencies combined with simple and cost-effective device fabrication, perovskite solar cells are promising candidates as top cells in tandem devices. For this application, the perovskite solar cell must be highly transparent at near-in ...

Elsevier2015

Organometallic Halide Perovskites: Sharp Optical Absorption Edge and Its Relation to Photovoltaic Performance

Christophe Ballif, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Stefaan De Wolf, Franz-Josef Haug, Jakub Holovsky, Björn Niesen, Martin Ledinsky

Solar cells based on organometallic halide perovskite absorber layers are emerging as a high-performance photovoltaic technology. Using highly sensitive photothermal deflection and photocurrent spectroscopy, we measure the absorption spectrum of CH3NH3PbI3 ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Efficient monolithic perovskite/perovskite tandem solar cells are fabricated using two perovskite absorbers with complementary bandgaps. By employing doped organic semiconductors, an efficient and selective extraction of the charge carriers is ensured. Thi ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

Cyanine tandem and triple-junction solar cells

Frank Nüesch, Hui Zhang, Björn Niesen, Lei Wang, René Uwe Schneider

Ultrathin bilayer heterojunction solar cells using cyanine electron donors and electron acceptor C-60 are used to fabricate monolithically stacked tandem and triple junction devices. Sub-cell stack sequences as well as C-60 layer thicknesses are optimized ...

Elsevier2016

In Situ TEM Analysis of Organic-Inorganic Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells under Electrical Bias

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Changes in the nanostructure of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells are assessed as a function of current-voltage stimulus by biasing thin samples in situ in a transmission electron microscope. Various degradation pathways are iden ...

American Chemical Society2016

Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Nicolas Tétreault, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Combining market-proven silicon solar cell technology with an efficient wide band gap top cell into a tandem device is an attractive approach to reduce the cost of photovoltaic systems. For this, perovskite solar cells are promising high-efficiency top cel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Perovskite Layers and Solar Cells: A Sensitive Probe of Material Degradation

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Jakub Holovsky, Björn Niesen, Martin Ledinsky, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Optical absorptance spectroscopy of polycrystalline CH3NH3PbI3 films usually indicates the presence of a PbI2 phase, either as a preparation residue or due to film degradation, but gives no insight on how this may affect electrical properties. Here, we app ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Gabriel Christmann, Arnaud Walter, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang

Cesium-formamidinium-based mixed-halide perovskite materials with optical band gaps ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 eV are investigated by variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. The determined complex refractive indices are shown to depend on the fabrication p ...

2018

Thin Film Metal Nanocluster Light-Emitting Devices

Björn Niesen

Light-emitting devices that utilize thin films of metal nanoclusters as quantum emitters are presented. Implementing Ag as well as Au nanoclusters, the versatility of the approach is demonstrated, and it is shown that the electroluminescence measured from ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Field Performance versus Standard Test Condition Efficiency of Tandem Solar Cells and the Singular Case of Perovskites/Silicon Devices

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Björn Niesen, Olivier Denis Dupré

Multijunction cells may offer a cost-effective route to boost the efficiency of industrial photovoltaics. For any technology to be deployed in the field, its performance under actual operating conditions is extremely important. In this perspective, we eval ...

2018

Raman Spectroscopy of Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites

Christophe Ballif, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Stefaan De Wolf, Jakub Holovsky, Björn Niesen, Martin Ledinsky

Micro-Raman spectroscopy provides laterally resolved microstructural information for a broad range of materials. In this Letter, we apply this technique to tri-iodide (CH3NH3PbI3), tribromide (CH3NH3PbBr3), and mixed iodide-bromide (CH3NH3PbI3-xBrx) organi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Hybrid sequential deposition process for fully textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Monica Morales Masis, Gianluca Cattaneo, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu

Tandem solar cells that feature a high-bandgap perovskite cell on top of a lower bandgap silicon cell have the potential to reach efficiencies > 30%. Here, we present a versatile hybrid deposition method that yields conformal perovskite cells directly on t ...

IEEE2018

Zinc tin oxide as high-temperature stable recombination layer for mesoscopic perovskite/silicon monolithic tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Stefaan De Wolf, Xavier Niquille, Jérémie Werner, Monica Morales Masis, Björn Niesen, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

Perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells have the potential to reach efficiencies beyond those of silicon single-junction record devices. However, the high-temperature process of 500 °C needed for state-of-the-art mesoscopic perovskite cells has, ...

American Institute of Physics2016

CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells: characterization based optical simulations

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Björn Niesen

In this study we analyze and discuss the optical properties of various tandem architectures: mechanically stacked (four-terminal) and monolithically integrated (two-terminal) tandem devices, consisting of a methyl ammonium lead triiodide (CH3NH3PbI3) perov ...

Optical Society of America2015

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells: marriage of convenience or true love story? - An overview

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells have reached efﬁciencies above 25% in just about three years of development, mostly driven by the rapid progress made in the perovskite solar cell research ﬁeld. This review aims to give an overview of the achievements ...

2017

Probing Photocurrent Nonuniformities in the Subcells of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with high power conversion efficiencies have the potential to become a commercially viable photovoltaic option in the near future. However, device design and optimization is challenging because conventional characteriz ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Self-Patterned Nanoparticle Layers for Vertical Interconnects: Application in Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Björn Niesen

We demonstrate self-patterned insulating nanoparticle layers to define local electrical interconnects in thin-film electronic devices. We show this with thin-film silicon tandem solar cells, where we introduce between the two component cells a solution-pro ...

American Chemical Society2014