31 May 2022 Photoinstability aversion in perovskite solar cell by downconversion cadmium chalcogenide filters
Carlos Tamayo-Bello, Ángel Sauceda-Carvajal, Rafael Villa-Angulo, Carlos Villa-Angulo
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Abstract

Susceptibility to environmental factors, such as moisture, humidity, oxygen, heat, and ultraviolet (UV) light (photoinstability), has affected perovskite solar cell (PSC) stability in practical applications. To overcome the instability and performance degradation due to oxygen, humidity, and moisture, different strategies and encapsulation schemes have been proposed, and promising results have been obtained. However, photostability remains a major hurdle because UV light is an inherent part of the standard incident spectrum of PSCs. To prevent photoinstability and increase quantum energy harvesting levels, cadmium chalcogenide (CC) photoluminescent (PL) filters for downconverting the UV part of the incident spectra obtained for PSCs are proposed in this work. The concept was illustrated by matching 500-nm-thick CC-PL filters to the front glass of a PSC to form a CC-PL/glass/indium tin oxide (ITO)/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS)/perovskite/Ag structure. Cadmium sulfide (CdS), cadmium selenide, and cadmium telluride were taken as the CC materials. Practical measurements confirmed that the PSC with the CdS-PL filter can maintain 92% of its initial value under continuous light soaking for more than 100 h. Furthermore, this PSC exhibited the best improvement in power conversion efficiency.

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Carlos Tamayo-Bello, Ángel Sauceda-Carvajal, Rafael Villa-Angulo, and Carlos Villa-Angulo "Photoinstability aversion in perovskite solar cell by downconversion cadmium chalcogenide filters," Journal of Photonics for Energy 12(2), 025501 (31 May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.12.025501
Received: 10 January 2022; Accepted: 11 May 2022; Published: 31 May 2022
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KEYWORDS
Ultraviolet radiation

Cadmium sulfide

Perovskite

Cadmium

Optical filters

Solar cells

External quantum efficiency

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