Publication date: 17th February 2025
The need for renewable energy is increasing due to various reasons, such as climate change and reducing environmental pollution. As for solar cells, one of the representative types of renewable energy, silicon-type solar cells are currently the mainstream, but they have already achieved an efficiency close to theoretical efficiency and have reached a technical limit in which efficiency is hard to be increased any further. Perovskite solar cells, which have been drawing attention as next-generation solar cells, have the advantage of having an absolute efficiency value of about 15% higher than that of silicon solar cells. Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 28.6%[1] in M10-sized (330.56 cm2) perovskite/Si tandem solar cells, and major solar cell manufacturers in China and around the world are accelerating the commercialization of perovskite solar cells.
The basic structure of a perovskite solar cell generally consists of a perovskite active layer, charge transporting layers, and a transparent conducting layer. Recent research suggests various approaches to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells as well as the reliability of the devices. Compared to silicon solar cells, the materials that make up perovskite solar cells have the advantage of having a high degree of freedom in material development and that they can be developed at low cost. Due to these advantages, the speed of development of perovskite solar cells was able to accelerate, and research and development to synthesize and apply new materials is currently being actively conducted at various research institutes and industries.
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