Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells on Industrially Compatible Textured Silicon

Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells promise power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit of single-junction solar cells. The conformal deposition of perovskites on industrially feasible textured silicon solar cells allows for both lowered manufacturing costs and a higher matched photocurrent density, compared to state-of-the-art tandems using front-side flat or mildly textured silicon. However, the inferior crystal quality of perovskite films grown on fully-textured silicon compromises the photovoltaic performance. Here, an anion-engineered additive strategy is developed to control the crystallization process of wide-bandgap perovskite films, which enables improved film crystallinity, reduced trap density, and conformal deposition on industrially textured silicon. This strategy allows the fabrication of 28.6%-efficient perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells (certified 27.9%, 1 cm²). This approach is compatible with the scalable fabrication of tandems on industrially textured silicon, demonstrating an efficiency of 25.1% for an aperture area of 16 cm². The anion-engineered additive significantly improves the operating stability of wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells, and the encapsulated tandem solar cells retain over 80% of their initial performance following 2000 h of operation under full 1-sun illumination in ambient conditions.