Triple-halide wide–band gap perovskites with suppressed phase segregation for efficient tandems

TLDR

Tandem solar cells can increase efficiency by using two current‑matched active layers, but wide‑band‑gap perovskites containing iodine and bromine or bromine and chlorine suffer short carrier diffusion lengths and photo‑induced phase segregation. The authors aim to develop a method to incorporate chloride into perovskites to produce stable triple‑halide materials with a 1.67‑eV band gap. They achieve this by incorporating chloride during fabrication, enabling stable triple‑halide perovskites with suppressed phase segregation. Two‑terminal tandem silicon solar cells using this material achieved a power conversion efficiency of 27%. Xu et al., Science, this issue p.

Abstract

Tuning band gaps with three halides Tandem solar cells can boost solar cell efficiency by using two active layers to absorb the solar spectrum more completely, provided that the two cells are current-matched. Inorganic-organic perovskites tuned to the appropriate wide band gap (∼1.7 electron volts) as top cells that contained iodine and bromine or bromine and chlorine have short carrier diffusion lengths and undergo photo-induced phase segregation. Xu et al. now report a method for incorporating chloride that allows for fabrication of stable triple-halide perovskites with a band gap of 1.67 electron volts. Two-terminal tandem silicon solar cells made with this material had a power conversion efficiency of 27%. Science , this issue p. 1097