Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design
Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as promising photovoltaic materials due to their excellent optical and electrical properties, enabling perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with certified power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) greater than 25%. Provided radiative recombination is the dom...
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| author | Raja Waseem De Bastiani Michele Allen Thomas G. Aydin Erkan Razzaq Arsalan Rehman Atteq ur Ugur Esma Babayigit Aslihan Subbiah Anand S. Isikgor Furkan H. De Wolf Stefaan |
| author_facet | Raja Waseem De Bastiani Michele Allen Thomas G. Aydin Erkan Razzaq Arsalan Rehman Atteq ur Ugur Esma Babayigit Aslihan Subbiah Anand S. Isikgor Furkan H. De Wolf Stefaan |
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| description | Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as promising photovoltaic materials due to their excellent optical and electrical properties, enabling perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with certified power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) greater than 25%. Provided radiative recombination is the dominant recombination mechanism, photon recycling – the process of reabsorption (and re-emission) of photons that result from radiative recombination – can be utilized to further enhance the PCE toward the Shockley–Queisser (S-Q) theoretical limit. Geometrical optics can be exploited for the intentional trapping of such re-emitted photons within the device, to enhance the PCE. However, this scheme reaches its fundamental diffraction limits at the submicron scale. Therefore, introducing photonic nanostructures offer attractive solutions to manipulate and trap light at the nanoscale via light coupling into guided modes, as well as localized surface plasmon and surface plasmon polariton modes. This review focuses on light-trapping schemes for efficient photon recycling in PSCs. First, we summarize the working principles of photon recycling, which is followed by a review of essential requirements to make this process efficient. We then survey photon recycling in state-of-the-art PSCs and propose design strategies to invoke light-trapping to effectively exploit photon recycling in PSCs. Finally, we formulate a future outlook and discuss new research directions in the context of photon recycling. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff6c02d41de1425e87175fca15708afe2022-12-22T02:46:07ZengDe GruyterNanophotonics2192-86142021-05-011082023204210.1515/nanoph-2021-0067Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device designRaja Waseem0De Bastiani Michele1Allen Thomas G.2Aydin Erkan3Razzaq Arsalan4Rehman Atteq ur5Ugur Esma6Babayigit Aslihan7Subbiah Anand S.8Isikgor Furkan H.9De Wolf Stefaan10King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaMetal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as promising photovoltaic materials due to their excellent optical and electrical properties, enabling perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with certified power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) greater than 25%. Provided radiative recombination is the dominant recombination mechanism, photon recycling – the process of reabsorption (and re-emission) of photons that result from radiative recombination – can be utilized to further enhance the PCE toward the Shockley–Queisser (S-Q) theoretical limit. Geometrical optics can be exploited for the intentional trapping of such re-emitted photons within the device, to enhance the PCE. However, this scheme reaches its fundamental diffraction limits at the submicron scale. Therefore, introducing photonic nanostructures offer attractive solutions to manipulate and trap light at the nanoscale via light coupling into guided modes, as well as localized surface plasmon and surface plasmon polariton modes. This review focuses on light-trapping schemes for efficient photon recycling in PSCs. First, we summarize the working principles of photon recycling, which is followed by a review of essential requirements to make this process efficient. We then survey photon recycling in state-of-the-art PSCs and propose design strategies to invoke light-trapping to effectively exploit photon recycling in PSCs. Finally, we formulate a future outlook and discuss new research directions in the context of photon recycling.https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0067light-trappingperovskitesphoton recyclingphotovoltaicssolar cells |
| spellingShingle | Raja Waseem De Bastiani Michele Allen Thomas G. Aydin Erkan Razzaq Arsalan Rehman Atteq ur Ugur Esma Babayigit Aslihan Subbiah Anand S. Isikgor Furkan H. De Wolf Stefaan Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design Nanophotonics light-trapping perovskites photon recycling photovoltaics solar cells |
| title | Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| title_full | Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| title_fullStr | Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| title_full_unstemmed | Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| title_short | Photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| title_sort | photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and its impact on device design |
| topic | light-trapping perovskites photon recycling photovoltaics solar cells |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0067 |
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