Design and simulation of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with high efficiency

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1 Azad Islamic Univercity Bojnourd Branch

2 Bahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad

3 Department of electrical Engineering, Bojnourd branch, Islamic Azad University

Abstract

The subject of this research is the design and simulation of a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell. The purpose of this research is to reduce heat loss and increase cell efficiency. In this work, we designed a tandem device consisting of two cells using the SCAPS simulator (Solar Cell Capacitor Simulator); The front cell comprised of CH3NH3PbI3 absorber layer (with a bandgap of 1.55 ev), and a C-Si cell (with 1.12 ev bandgap) was selected as the bottom cell. Each of two cells were simulated and optimized separately, and then, the tandem structure consisting of two cells was simulated and the optimal thickness of the perovskite absorber layer was determined for the current matching conditions in the a two-terminal (2T) monolithic structure. The transmission spectrum of the perovskite cell to radiate to the lower cell was obtained using MATLAB software. Finally, the simulation of this structure led to an efficiency of 33.27%.

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Journal of Research on Many-body Systems

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 16 March 2024

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  • Receive Date: 16 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 17 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 12 March 2024

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