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Proton Radiation Hardness of Perovskite Tandem Photovoltaics
Authors Felix Lang, Marko Jošt, Kyle Frohna, Eike Köhnen, Amran Al-Ashouri, Alan R. Bowman, Tobias Bertram, Anna Belen Morales-Vilches, Dibyashree Koushik, Elizabeth Tennyson, Krzysztof Galkowski, Giovanni Landi, Mariadriana Creatore, Bernd Stannowski, Christian A.Kaufmann, Jürgen Bundesmann, Jörg Rappich, Bernd Rech, Andrea Denker, Steve Albrecht, Heinz-Christoph Neitzert, Norbert H. Nickel, and Samuel D. Stranks
Abstract
We propose and test monolithic perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells for readily stowable, ultra-lightweight space photovoltaics. We design operando and ex situ measurements to show that perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells retain over 85% of their initial power-conversion efficiency after high-energy proton irradiation. While the perovskite sub-cell is unaffected after this bombardment, we identify increased non-radiative recombination in the CIGS bottom cell and nickel-oxide-based recombination layer. By contrast, monolithic perovskite/silicon-heterojunction cells degrade to 1% of their initial efficiency due to radiation-induced defects in silicon.
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