Optoelectronic Modelling and Analysis of Transparency against Efficiency in Perovskites/Dye-based Solar Cells

Abstract

Solar cells have been in an evolution process day by day, which opens the door for brand new technologies and applications. One of the most promising technologies that is offered nowadays is the semi-transparent solar cells. Semi-transparent cells can offer light harvesting solutions in a wide band of applications, for instance electrical vehicle glass window and smart buildings. As this technology just walking its first steps, we introduce a new optimization attempt in terms of the trade-off between transparency and efficiency. Study has been conducted on six different third generation solar cells which include four perovskite solar cells (PSC) and two dye sanitized solar cells (DSSC). Results showed that organic lead-free PSC is the most appropriate candidate for semi-transparent technology with efficiency reaching 29.97% and transparency of 85.59%.