TY - JOUR
T1 - Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics
T2 - Technological disruption without business disruption
AU - Kamaraki, Christina
AU - Klug, Matthew T.
AU - Green, Thomas
AU - Miranda Perez, Laura
AU - Case, Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
C.K. would like to acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Program for funding Research and Innovation under Grant Agreement No. 764787 (MAESTRO). All of the authors are employees at Oxford Photovoltaics, Ltd.
PY - 2021/8/16
Y1 - 2021/8/16
N2 - Meeting the ambitious challenge of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and holding the average increase in global temperature below 1.5 °C necessitate the upscaling of readily available renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaics. Since the window of time to achieve this goal is closing fast, it is of paramount importance that we accelerate the decarbonization of the global energy system by increasing the power output of solar cells through advancing their power conversion efficiencies toward and beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. In this Perspective, we describe how the integration of perovskites into the well-established silicon production infrastructure to form perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics can raise the rate of solar deployment. We present a holistic analysis of the technology from different perspectives, such as materials science, manufacturing, sustainability, and business, which highlights how the pairing of perovskite and silicon is advantageous at many different levels of consideration. Altogether, perovskite/silicon tandems deliver a technological disruption in efficiency while maintaining compatibility with the present photovoltaics industry, making it the fastest route to enhance the silicon market and rapidly address climate change.
AB - Meeting the ambitious challenge of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and holding the average increase in global temperature below 1.5 °C necessitate the upscaling of readily available renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaics. Since the window of time to achieve this goal is closing fast, it is of paramount importance that we accelerate the decarbonization of the global energy system by increasing the power output of solar cells through advancing their power conversion efficiencies toward and beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. In this Perspective, we describe how the integration of perovskites into the well-established silicon production infrastructure to form perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics can raise the rate of solar deployment. We present a holistic analysis of the technology from different perspectives, such as materials science, manufacturing, sustainability, and business, which highlights how the pairing of perovskite and silicon is advantageous at many different levels of consideration. Altogether, perovskite/silicon tandems deliver a technological disruption in efficiency while maintaining compatibility with the present photovoltaics industry, making it the fastest route to enhance the silicon market and rapidly address climate change.
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U2 - 10.1063/5.0054086
DO - 10.1063/5.0054086
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85113299607
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 119
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 7
M1 - 070501
ER -