Chemical Rounding Suppresses Morphology‐Induced Interfacial Losses in Perovskite–Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
ABSTRACT Surface texturing in crystalline silicon solar cells imposes a fundamental trade‐off in perovskite‐silicon tandems: micrometer‐scale pyramids enable efficient light trapping but limit the conformal deposition of thin perovskite films with sub‐micrometer thickness, whereas reduced texture heights improve compatibility at the expense of optical performance and interfacial quality of the tandem device. Here, we address this challenge by combining precisely controlled submicron texturing with an ozone‐assisted chemical rounding treatment. The resulting silicon substrates feature smoothly rounded, symmetric submicron textures that suppress micro‐terrace formation and partial epitaxy at the amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon interface, while promoting more spatially uniform optoelectronic properties in the subsequently integrated top‐cell stack. The morphology‐engineered texture yields a monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem device with a power conversion efficiency of 33.25%, demonstrating that multiscale morphological control provides a powerful pathway to simultaneously improve the optical performance and interfacial quality of tandem solar cells.
Authors
- Christoph Josef Brabec (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-0253)
- Kaining Ding (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0329-5951)
- Andreas Lambertz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8275-6837)
- Thomas Kirchartz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-8213)
- Sang Il Seok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9976-6628)
- Michael Saliba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6818-9781)
- Eunseo Noh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-4389)
- Karsten Bittkau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-2967)
- Sercan Aslan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7909-1332)
- Binbin Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8184-8852)
- Nan Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5940-125X)
- Huang Gaosheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2370-2232)
- Yuehui Li
Institutions
- University of Stuttgart (DE)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
- Henan Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (DE)
- Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (DE)
- Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Published
- 2026-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.71784
- Primary Topic
- Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00