Journal Article10.1002/aenm.202301555
Recent Progress in Materials and Device Design for Semitransparent Photovoltaic Technologies
Pankaj Kumar,Shujie You,Alberto Vomiero +2 more
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TL;DR: Recent progress in STPV technologies has led to improvements in both PCE and semitransparency. Device structure optimization and analysis of PCE loss mechanisms are discussed. Practical aspects like compatibility, buffer layer optimization, light management, and scale-up are also reported.
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Abstract: Semitransparent photovoltaic (STPV) solar cells offer an immense opportunity to expand the scope of photovoltaics to special applications such as windows, facades, skylights, and so on. These new opportunities have encouraged researchers to develop STPVs using traditional thin‐film solar cell technologies (amorphous‐Si, CdTe, and CIGS or emerging solar cells (organic, perovskites, and dye‐sensitized). There are considerable improvements in both power conversion efficiency (PCE) and semitransparency of these STPV devices. This review studies the device structure of state‐of‐the‐art STPV devices and thereby analyzes the different approaches toward maximizing the product of PCE and average visible transmittance. The origins of PCE losses during the opaque‐to‐semitransparent transition in the different STPV technologies are discussed. In addition, critical practical aspects relevant to all STPV devices, such as compatibility of the top transparent electrode with the device structure, buffer layer optimization, light management engineering, scale‐up, and stability, are also reported. This overview is expected to facilitate researchers across different technologies to identify and overcome the challenges toward achieving higher light utilization efficiencies in STPVs.
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