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Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Featuring Localized Front Contacts

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202570071

Sebastian Smits, Yifeng Zhao, Paul Procel Moya, Luana Mazzarella, Olindo Isabella

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A Sustainable Hydrogel-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Coupled to an Integrated Supercapacitor for Direct Indoor Light-Energy Storage

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202570061

Sara Domenici, Roberto Speranza, Federico Bella, Andrea Lamberti, Teresa Gatti

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Investigation of Potential-Induced Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells under Inert Conditions

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400923

Robbe Breugelmans, Stijn Lammar, Aranzazu Aguirre, Tom Aernouts, Bart Vermang, Michaël Daenen

{"title":"Investigation of Potential-Induced Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells under Inert Conditions","authors":"Robbe Breugelmans, Stijn Lammar, Aranzazu Aguirre, Tom Aernouts, Bart Vermang, Michaël Daenen","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400923","url":null,"abstract":"Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology due to their remarkable efficiency advancements. However, their commercialization is hindered by stability challenges, including sensitivity to environmental conditions and a critical degradation mechanism known as potential-induced degradation (PID). PID can significantly impair PSC performance within hours under operational conditions. This study investigates PID in 48 triple-cation p-i-n PSCs over 313 h in an inert environment, excluding additional stressors like moisture and oxygen. The PID-stressed devices degraded to 79% of their initial efficiency, primarily driven by losses in short-circuit current density. Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy revealed sodium ion migration from soda-lime glass substrates into the perovskite layer. Interestingly, photoluminescence and X-ray diffraction analyses detected no measurable differences between PID-stressed and reference devices, contradicting prior literature that associates PID with perovskite segregation and decomposition. These findings challenge the conventional understanding of PID, suggesting that environmental factors such as oxygen and moisture might exacerbate degradation effects. This work provides critical insights into the intrinsic mechanisms of PID under controlled conditions and highlights the need for further research into the interplay between PID and environmental stressors to guide the development of more stable PSC technologies.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Solution-Processed SnOx as a Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cell

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202500047

Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Emrul Kayesh, Wipakorn Jevasuwan, Naoki Fukata, Ashraful Islam

{"title":"Solution-Processed SnOx as a Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cell","authors":"Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Emrul Kayesh, Wipakorn Jevasuwan, Naoki Fukata, Ashraful Islam","doi":"10.1002/solr.202500047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202500047","url":null,"abstract":"Sn-perovskites are considered a suitable alternative to toxic Pb-perovskites due to their low toxicity and optimum optoelectronic properties. However, high-efficiency Sn-based perovskite solar cells (Sn-PSCs) typically use poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonic acid (PEDOT:PSS) as a hole-transporting material (HTM), which limits their stability due to its acidic nature. This study introduces SnOX nanocrystals, synthesized through a synproportionation reaction of Sn4+ with Sn0 under mild conditions, as a replacement for PEDOT:PSS. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy analyses revealed that the Sn0 reduces Sn4+ by 38% and elevates the highest occupied molecular orbital to –5.70 eV, close to PEDOT:PSS, enabling HTM behavior. The perovskite films on SnOX exhibit improved grain size and crystallinity compared to PEDOT:PSS. The resulting SnOX-based Sn-PSCs achieved a power conversion efficiency of 11.11%. They retained 90% of their efficiency after 1000 h of maximum power point tracking, indicating superior stability over PEDOT:PSS-based devices.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/solr.202500047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Decoration of Two-Dimensional Cus Nanoflakes on Graphitic Carbon Foam Derived from Waste Plastic for Interfacial Solar Desalination

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400777

Muzammil Hussain, Anastasiia Taranova, Kassa Belay Ibrahim, Alessandro Gradone, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Silvia Gross, Vittorio Morandi, Elisa Moretti, Alberto Vomiero, Tofik Ahmed Shifa

{"title":"Decoration of Two-Dimensional Cus Nanoflakes on Graphitic Carbon Foam Derived from Waste Plastic for Interfacial Solar Desalination","authors":"Muzammil Hussain, Anastasiia Taranova, Kassa Belay Ibrahim, Alessandro Gradone, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Silvia Gross, Vittorio Morandi, Elisa Moretti, Alberto Vomiero, Tofik Ahmed Shifa","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400777","url":null,"abstract":"Interfacial solar desalination using plasmonic metal semiconductors is a valuable process for freshwater production. However, the design of a sustainable and efficient photothermal evaporator is still challenging. In the present research, polyethylene terephthalate waste bottles were upcycled into carbon foam (CF) and further functionalized with CuS nanoflakes as a photothermal layer. Analytical characterizations (X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, and scanning transmission electron microscopy–high-angle annular dark field) demonstrated the successful decoration of two-dimensional Covellite CuS nanoflakes on graphitic CF having microporous channels. UV/vis spectroscopy measurements show enhanced optical absorption with CuS/CF of up to 95% compared to bare CF (72%). The photothermal desalination experiment displayed an improved evaporation rate of 1.90 kg m−2 h−1 for the CuS–CF compared to 1.58 kg m−2 h−1 for the bare CF and CuS 1.41 kg m−2 h1, reveling the excellent water evaporation efficiency of 91%. The obtained results suggested that the design of CuS-functionalized CF derived from waste plastic for solar desalination is a useful strategy to produce fresh water from the upcycling of waste materials and a good example of circular economy through the development of engineered composite systems.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/solr.202400777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Next-Generation Solar-Powering: Photonic Strategies for Earth and Space Systems

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400666

Ivan M. Santos, Miguel Alexandre, António T. Vicente, Cristina Teixeira, Eva Almeida, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Hugo Águas, Manuel J. Mendes

{"title":"Next-Generation Solar-Powering: Photonic Strategies for Earth and Space Systems","authors":"Ivan M. Santos, Miguel Alexandre, António T. Vicente, Cristina Teixeira, Eva Almeida, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Hugo Águas, Manuel J. Mendes","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400666","url":null,"abstract":"Escalating environmental and energy supply concerns, coupled with an increasing interest in space exploration, are driving the development of advanced energy harvesting systems and the adoption of cutting-edge photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Photonics allows precise light manipulation in a multitude of ways, empowering PV with the means to tackle the multifaceted challenges inherent to the harsh space environment, with great potential to concomitantly spin off to on-Earth systems, prioritizing efficiency and reliability. This review thus synthesizes the key insights from the latest experimental and simulation R&D outcomes to inform the design and implementation of advanced photonic strategies for various PV applications. The state-of-the-art performance and foreground of photonic-managed thick- (single-junction crystalline silicon, c-Si, and perovskite-on-silicon tandem) and thin-film (hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a-Si:H, and perovskite) PV devices are assessed by comparison with theoretical ideal light-trapping scenarios (single-, double-pass, and Lambertian absorption models), looking also at the potential of photonic coolers as an emergent platform for effective thermal management. Finally, this work examines novel photonic approaches for spectrum modification, emphasizing the relevance of illumination-tailoring for outer space systems.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/solr.202400666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Loss Analysis of Halide-Perovskite Solar Cells Deposited on Textured Substrates

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400829

Yueming Wang, Jürgen Hüpkes, Sandheep Ravishankar, Benjamin Klingebiel, Thomas Kirchartz

{"title":"Loss Analysis of Halide-Perovskite Solar Cells Deposited on Textured Substrates","authors":"Yueming Wang, Jürgen Hüpkes, Sandheep Ravishankar, Benjamin Klingebiel, Thomas Kirchartz","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400829","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000To create efficient perovskite–silicon tandem cells with small pyramidal structures, it is crucial to deposit high-quality wide-bandgap perovskite films on textured surfaces. To attain this objective, it is essential to comprehensively understand the characteristics of perovskite films on textured surfaces and their impact on the efficiency loss mechanisms of perovskite solar cells. We find that the textured substrates provide better absorptance of the perovskite films, thus reducing the efficiency losses resulting from the reflected or transmitted light. The short-circuit current of textured devices reaches 95% of the Shockley–Queisser limit at 1.68 eV. In addition, the fill factor losses are not obviously influenced by the textured bottom surface of the perovskite films. Furthermore, transient photoluminescence was used to quantify the recombination losses at open circuit in layer stacks and full devices, offering insights into the surface recombination velocity at the perovskite/electron transport layer interface and capacitive discharge of the electrodes.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/solr.202400829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Surface Sulfuration of Atomic Layer Deposited Snox for Enhanced Performance of n–i–P Perovskite Solar Cells

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400879

Jun Wu, Zhiqin Ying, Xin Li, Meili Zhang, Xuchao Guo, Linhui Liu, Yihan Sun, Haofan Ma, Yunyun Yu, Ziyu He, Yuheng Zeng, Xi Yang, Jichun Ye

{"title":"Surface Sulfuration of Atomic Layer Deposited Snox for Enhanced Performance of n–i–P Perovskite Solar Cells","authors":"Jun Wu, Zhiqin Ying, Xin Li, Meili Zhang, Xuchao Guo, Linhui Liu, Yihan Sun, Haofan Ma, Yunyun Yu, Ziyu He, Yuheng Zeng, Xi Yang, Jichun Ye","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400879","url":null,"abstract":"Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells hold great promise for achieving high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). However, n–i–p tandem devices generally underperform compared to p–i–n configurations, largely due to difficulties in depositing high-quality, conformal electron-transport layers (ETLs) on rough, pyramid-structured silicon surfaces. Atomic layer deposited (ALD)-SnOx is well suited as an ETL for tandem devices due to its ability to uniformly coat textured surfaces, but its high density of defects significantly limits efficiency compared to conventional solution-processed SnOx. In this study, an ultrathin evaporated PbS layer is introduced to passivate surface defects in ALD-SnOx. PbS effectively addresses interfacial defects at the SnOx/perovskite interface, such as oxygen vacancies and uncoordinated Pb2+. Moreover, PbS improves energy-level alignment and lattice matching at the interface, enhancing device performance. With this bridging effect of PbS, a wide-bandgap (1.68 eV) n–i–p single-junction perovskite solar cell achieved a PCE of 20.39% and an open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 1.22 V, compared to a control device with a PCE of 17.42% and a VOC of 1.16 V.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhancing Vertical Orientation via Self-Assembled Molecule Interlayer Enables Efficient Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400906

Aili Wang, Shuxian Chen, Kaihuai Du, Zhimin Fang, Luozheng Zhang, Lvzhou Li, Xu Dong, Ningyi Yuan, Jianning Ding

{"title":"Enhancing Vertical Orientation via Self-Assembled Molecule Interlayer Enables Efficient Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells","authors":"Aili Wang, Shuxian Chen, Kaihuai Du, Zhimin Fang, Luozheng Zhang, Lvzhou Li, Xu Dong, Ningyi Yuan, Jianning Ding","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400906","url":null,"abstract":"The typical anisotropic crystal orientation in Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites (RPPs) is not conducive to carrier transport, resulting in a reduced power conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to three-dimensional perovskites. Here, we present a novel method for manipulating the crystal orientation by introducing a self-assembled molecular layer, MeO-2PACz ([2-(3,6-dimethoxy-9H-carbazol-9-yl)ethyl] phosphonic acid), as an interlayer between PTAA (poly[bis(4-phenyl)(2,4, 6-trimethylphenyl) amine]) and the perovskite. The phosphate group of MeO-2PACz bonds with Pb2+ in the RPP, promoting the vertical orientation formation of the perovskite and facilitating efficient charge transport within the RPP materials. Additionally, the grain size is increased, and grain boundary defects are passivated, which contributes to suppressed nonradiative recombination of carriers. The interlayer incorporation of significantly improves the PCE of the optimized device to 17.80%, compared to the device without MeO-2PACz, which has an efficiency of approximately 15.68%. This presents the highest efficiency for an MA-based RP perovskite solar cell (PSC) utilizing 4FPEA (4-fluoro-phenethylammonium) as the spacer cation. Furthermore, the unencapsulated devices demonstrate superior thermal stability. This proposed optimization offers new insights into the manipulation of RPP crystal growth orientation.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhancing Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells through Synergistic Guanidine–Oxysalt-Mediated Surface Engineering

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Solar RRL Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400903

Sakshi Thakur, Dilpreet Singh Mann, Sushil Shivaji Sangale, Sung-Nam Kwon, Seok-In Na

{"title":"Enhancing Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells through Synergistic Guanidine–Oxysalt-Mediated Surface Engineering","authors":"Sakshi Thakur, Dilpreet Singh Mann, Sushil Shivaji Sangale, Sung-Nam Kwon, Seok-In Na","doi":"10.1002/solr.202400903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202400903","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells show continuous improvement in power conversion efficiency. However, the defects present on the perovskite surface affect the device performance and long-term stability. In this study, we introduced N-(2-phenoxyethyl) guanidine nitrate salt (NPEGN) as a surface passivator to effectively engineer surface defects and reduce nonradiative recombination at the interface. The NPEGN introduction on the perovskite surface results in large grains with fewer grain boundaries, leading to the formation of low-dimensional 2D phase on the perovskite surface. Furthermore, NPEGN treatment passivates defects through ionic and hydrogen bonding with perovskite and inhibits perovskite degradation by preventing ion migration. Additionally, improved energy-level alignment at the perovskite/electron transport layer interface enhances charge transport capacity and reduces charge recombination. Consequently, the efficiency of perovskite solar cells with NPEGN treatment increases to 21.02%, while the unencapsulated devices retained 100% of their initial power conversion efficiency for 2200 h in nitrogen atmosphere and 90% of their initial efficiency for 450 h at 65°C.","PeriodicalId":230,"journal":{"name":"Solar RRL","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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