Investigation of Electron Transport Material-Free Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cell

Mostafa M. Salah (), Abdelhalim Zekry, Ahmed Shaker, Mohamed Abouelatta, Mohamed Mousa and Ahmed Saeed
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Mostafa M. Salah: Electrical Engineering Department, Future University in Egypt, Cairo 11835, Egypt
Abdelhalim Zekry: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11535, Egypt
Ahmed Shaker: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11535, Egypt
Mohamed Abouelatta: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11535, Egypt
Mohamed Mousa: Electrical Engineering Department, Future University in Egypt, Cairo 11835, Egypt
Ahmed Saeed: Electrical Engineering Department, Future University in Egypt, Cairo 11835, Egypt

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: Tandem solar cells have a superb potential to push the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of photovoltaic technologies. They can be also more stable and economical. In this simulation work, an efficient perovskite solar cell (PSC) with Spiro-OMeTAD as a hole transport material (HTM) and with no electron transport material (ETM) to replace the traditional PSC structure is presented. This PSC is then used as a top sub cell together with a copper indium gallium sulfide (CIGS) bottom sub cell to build a tandem cell. The multi-junction solar cell behavior is improved by engineering the technological and physical parameters of the perovskite and HTM. The results show that an n-p heterojunction PSC structure with an ETM free could be a good candidate for the traditional n-i-p structure. Because of such investigations, the performance of the proposed ETM-free PSC/CIGS cell could be designed to reach a PCE as high as 35.36%.

Keywords: CIGS; perovskites; efficient multi-junction solar cell; SCAPS-1D; zinc oxide (ZnO) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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