journal article·2016-03Open access

Highly Efficient Hybrid Polymer and Amorphous Silicon Multijunction Solar Cells with Effective Optical Management

Hairen Tan, Alice Furlan, Weiwei Li, Kirill Arapov, Rudi Santbergen, Martijn M. Wienk, Miro Zeman, Arno H. M. Smets, René A. J. Janssen

Advanced Materials· Volume 28· Issue 11

Abstract

Highly efficient hybrid multijunction solar cells are constructed with a wide-bandgap amorphous silicon for the front subcell and a low-bandgap polymer for the back subcell. Power conversion efficiencies of 11.6% and 13.2% are achieved in tandem and triple-junction configurations, respectively. The high efficiencies are enabled by deploying effective optical management and by using photoactive materials with complementary absorption.
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OpenAlex topics: solar cell performance optimization · Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

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Affiliations

Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Laboratory Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands

Molecular Materials and Nanosystems and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Organic Solids Laboratory Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China

Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research De Zaale 20 5612 AJ Eindhoven The Netherlands

Funding

Dutch STW-VIDI · European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme · European Research Council · Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

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