Bifacial perovskite solar cells: a universal component that goes beyond albedo utilization

Shan Gan; Haoxuan Sun; Chen Li; Da Dou; Liang Li

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.043

Bifacial perovskite solar cells: a universal component that goes beyond albedo utilization

Sci Bull (Beijing). 2023 Oct 15;68(19):2247-2267. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.043. Epub 2023 Aug 23.

Authors

Shan Gan¹, Haoxuan Sun², Chen Li¹, Da Dou¹, Liang Li³

Affiliations

¹ School of Physical Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films, Center for Energy Conversion Materials & Physics (CECMP), Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
² School of Physical Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films, Center for Energy Conversion Materials & Physics (CECMP), Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China. Electronic address: hxsun@suda.edu.cn.
³ School of Physical Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films, Center for Energy Conversion Materials & Physics (CECMP), Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China. Electronic address: lli@suda.edu.cn.

PMID: 37659909
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.043

Abstract

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved remarkable progress in the past decade and become the most powerful challenger of traditional silicon photovoltaics. Among the many designs, bifacial PSCs have received widespread attention these days due to their ability to fully utilize environmental reflection and scattering light to enhance energy yield. They also can provide better aesthetic design for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs). However, the potential of bifacial PSCs is not limited to these traditional applications. Importantly, such architecture also serves as a universal component for multi-junction cells and photon engineering, which are both critical for further efficiency improvement. In this review, the requirements of different functional layers under various applications are described in detail, starting from the structure of bifacial PSCs. The application developments are introduced, including albedo utilization, semitransparent PSCs (ST-PSCs), TSCs. The present issues (such as stability, large area, recombination of carriers at the back electrode and toxicity etc.) and the extra challenges of bifacial PSCs are highlighted. It is hoped that this review can provide new ideas for the future development and further improve the competitiveness of PSCs.

Keywords: Bifacial; Building-integrated photovoltaics; Perovskite solar cells; Semitransparent.

Publication types

Review