TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrical and Optical Investigation of 2T-Perovskite/u-CIGS Tandem Solar Cells With 30% Efficiency
AU - Boukortt, Nour El I.
AU - Patane, Salvatore
AU - Loureiro, Antonio Garcia
AU - Alamri, Amal M.
AU - Abdulraheem, Yaser M.
AU - Lenka, Trupti Ranjan
AU - Paul, Rabin
AU - Abushattal, Ahmad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - In this article, the two-terminal perovskite/ u-CIGS tandem device is performed and investigated numerically using Atlas Silvaco-TCAD tools. The structural configuration of FTO/TiO2/MAPbI3/Spiro-OMeTAD/Gold was performed, calibrated, and validated with overall good agreement. This validated numerical model is selected to be used as a top cell for the tandem device. In addition, the optimized ultrathin CIGS solar cell from our previous work has been used for a good substrate (bottom cell) for optimized perovskite top-cell. The simulated perovskite and u-CIGS cells have been performed individually revealing 17.84% and 12.41% efficiency, respectively, all in good agreement with published experimental results. The performed and calibrated tandem model is then studied to analyze the impact of changing the thickness of the cell layers such as for ETL, perovskite, HTL layers on perovskite, and tandem cell characteristics. The influence of the perovskite and HTL doping density is also investigated. The achieved results allow gaining a better understanding and a deeper insight into the effects of the physical dimensions and materials doping concentration on cell performance. After analyzing the optimal values from different changes, a new tandem cell configuration is proposed, which shows a good improvement in electrical characteristics with an efficiency of up to 30%.
AB - In this article, the two-terminal perovskite/ u-CIGS tandem device is performed and investigated numerically using Atlas Silvaco-TCAD tools. The structural configuration of FTO/TiO2/MAPbI3/Spiro-OMeTAD/Gold was performed, calibrated, and validated with overall good agreement. This validated numerical model is selected to be used as a top cell for the tandem device. In addition, the optimized ultrathin CIGS solar cell from our previous work has been used for a good substrate (bottom cell) for optimized perovskite top-cell. The simulated perovskite and u-CIGS cells have been performed individually revealing 17.84% and 12.41% efficiency, respectively, all in good agreement with published experimental results. The performed and calibrated tandem model is then studied to analyze the impact of changing the thickness of the cell layers such as for ETL, perovskite, HTL layers on perovskite, and tandem cell characteristics. The influence of the perovskite and HTL doping density is also investigated. The achieved results allow gaining a better understanding and a deeper insight into the effects of the physical dimensions and materials doping concentration on cell performance. After analyzing the optimal values from different changes, a new tandem cell configuration is proposed, which shows a good improvement in electrical characteristics with an efficiency of up to 30%.
KW - Device simulation
KW - efficiency
KW - inorganic perovskite
KW - tandem solar cell
KW - ultrathin CIGS
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85133706496
U2 - 10.1109/TED.2022.3176591
DO - 10.1109/TED.2022.3176591
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133706496
SN - 0018-9383
VL - 69
SP - 3798
EP - 3806
JO - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
JF - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
IS - 7
ER -
