If you do not receive an email within 10 minutes, your email address may not be registered, For this, we apply a detailed illumination model, which takes direct sunlight, diffuse skylight, shadowing by other modules and reflection from the ground into consideration. Figure 3c,d summarize these results. The structure is based on recent high‐end perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Hence, the maximum achievable photocurrent density is given by, In a high‐end solar cell made of a direct bandgap semiconductor, a significant fraction of the absorbed photons, which are not extracted as electrical current, will be re‐emitted as light via radiative recombination. contributed equally to this work. ;[2] the details are given in the Section S2, Supporting Information. Increasing the PCE of solar cells toward the theoretical limit can be realized by improving the ELQE of the cell in open circuit (OC), or in the other words—by suppressing non‐radiative recombination. For a silicon‐based tandem solar cell, the bandgap of the top cell absorber is critical to achieve current matching between the subcells. In this article, we use the MATLAB‐based tool GenPro4, which can calculate the absorption profile in solar‐cell structures using the net radiation method. With partners from Lithuania (the group of Prof. Vytautas Getautis) they developed an intermediate layer of organic molecules that arrange themselves autonomously into a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). t Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. a) The tandem solar cell structure used for estimating the fraction of photons, which are generated in the perovskite layer and reach the silicon wafer. In the beginning of 2020, a team headed by Prof. Steve Albrecht at the HZB broke the previous world record for tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon (28.0%, Oxford PV), setting a new world record of 29.15%. Reaching a 20% efficiency (let alone 25%) is a milestone in solar power technology, and one that has taken other types of solar cells decades to accomplish. Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue. Herein, the energy output of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells in monofacial and bifacial operation is calculated, for the first time considering luminescent coupling (LC) between two sub‐cells. [32] They publish hourly spectral direct and diffuse irradiance for a typical meteorological year (TMY). A second method to increase the energy output from a PV system on limited area is the multi‐junction approach where multiple solar cells with different bandgaps are stacked on top of each other. We found that additional backside illumination around 10–20% is sufficient to shift the optimum perovskite top‐cell bandgap in 2 T tandem solar cells from 1.71 eV to the 1.60–1.64 eV range. for this configuration, which is independent of the emission depths in the perovskite layer. "29.15% efficiency is not only the record for this technology but is at the very top of the entire Emerging PV category in the NREL chart," says Eike Köhnen, Ph.D. student on Albrecht's team and shared first author of the study. The additional light impinging onto the backside is exclusively absorbed by the bottom cell. Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. m We retrieve these data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB) operated by NREL. For the perovskite cell operation under one Sun, Auger recombination is negligible. t Silicon solar cells transform the infrared component of sunlight into electrical energy, whereas perovskite compounds can utilize visible components of sunlight. and P.T. 20 ILQE [29] We finally discuss how all the realistic deviations from STCs considered in this study—1) bifacial irradiation, 2) LC, and 3) weather conditions with high diffuse illumination ratio—influence the constraints for the perovskite top cell bandgap. Monofacial silicon solar cells currently dominate the photovoltaic (PV) market. Silicon has long been the gold standard for solar cells, but it’s beginning to reach its limit. The perovskite solar cells has yet to pass long way before they can compete with the single crystal solar cells. Note: For the graph with varying backside illumination, no LC is assumed, and for varying LC efficiencies, no backside illumination is present. 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