Device engineering of perovskite solar cells to achieve near ideal efficiency

@article{Agarwal2015DeviceEO,
  title={Device engineering of perovskite solar cells to achieve near ideal efficiency},
  author={Sumanshu Agarwal and Pradeep R. Nair},
  journal={Applied Physics Letters},
  year={2015},
  volume={107},
  pages={123901}
}
Despite the exciting recent research on perovskite based solar cells, the design space for further optimization and the practical limits of efficiency are not well known in the community. In this letter, we address these aspects through theoretical calculations and detailed numerical simulations. Here, we first provide the detailed balance limit efficiency in the presence of radiative and Auger recombination. Then, using coupled optical and carrier transport simulations, we identify the… 
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