TY - JOUR
AU - Albrecht, Steve
AU - Grootoonk, Björn
AU - Neubert, Sebastian
AU - Roland, Steffen
AU - Wördenweber, Jan
AU - Meier, Matthias
AU - Schlatmann, Rutger
AU - Gordijn, Aad
AU - Neher, Dieter
TI - Efficient hybrid inorganic/organic tandem solar cells with tailored recombination contacts
JO - Solar energy materials & solar cells
VL - 127
SN - 0927-0248
CY - Amsterdam
PB - North Holland
M1 - FZJ-2014-06488
SP - 157 - 162
PY - 2014
AB - In this work, the authors present a 7.5% efficient hybrid tandem solar cell with the bottom cell made of amorphous silicon and a Si-PCPDTBT:PC70BM bulk heterojunction top cell. Loss-free recombination contacts were realized by combing Al-doped ZnO with either the conducting polymer composite PEDOT:PSS or with a bilayer of ultrathin Al and MoO3. Optimization of these contacts results in tandem cells with high fill factors of 70% and an open circuit voltage close to the sum of those of the sub-cells. This is the best efficiency reported for this type of hybrid tandem cell so far. Optical and electrical device modeling suggests that the efficiency can be increased to ~12% on combining a donor polymer with suitable absorption onset with PCBM. We also describe proof-of-principle studies employing light trapping in hybrid tandem solar cells, suggesting that this device architecture has the potential to achieve efficiencies well above 12%.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000338618000022
DO - DOI:10.1016/j.solmat.2014.04.020
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/173075
ER -