Synergistic Solvent and Composition Engineering of Perovskites for Tandems on Industrial Silicon
Wide-bandgap perovskites based on mixed formamidinium-cesium cation and iodide-bromide halide are promising materials in the top cells that are well-matched with crystalline silicon bottom cells to construct efficient tandem photovoltaics. Nevertheless, mixed cation-halide perovskite films with submicron film thickness suffer from poor crystallinity with inhomogeneous and undesirable phases, owing to the presence of multiple pathways of crystal nucleation and phase transition. Herein, we propose a synergistic solvent and composition engineering (SSCE) strategy to regulate the solvated phases and manipulate the transition pathways simultaneously. The resultant mixed cation-halide perovskite film shows optimizing crystallization and desired phase structure with suppressed nonradiative recombination and improved phase stability under aging stresses. Consequently, the SSCE strategy enables the tandem cells based on industrially ultrathin silicon wafers (120 µm) to achieve a certified stabilized power conversion efficiency of 31.0%. Those encapsulated devices maintain 90% of their initial performance after 1200 h continuous operation.
Authors
- Ke Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-9505)
- Xizhang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-1820)
- Zhong’an Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9294-8939)
- Alex K.‐Y. Jen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7749)
- Jun Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-1869)
- Longbin Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7696-4901)
- Zhijun Xiong
- Hong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6776-9074)
- Mengsha Cao
- Yu Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2110-4522)
- Kai Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1841-1508)
- Yang Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9347-1342)
- Jun Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1976-8330)
- Jia Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7147-5973)
- Zhiliang Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5914-5667)
- Zhibang Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-7815)
- Shaofei Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5786-2647)
Institutions
- Nanchang University (CN)
- Anhui University (CN)
- Maxwell Technologies (United States) (US)
- City University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Institute of High Energy Physics (AT)
- Institute of High Energy Physics (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2025-04-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202424809
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.19
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province
- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility