Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells for tandems with silicon and CIGS

@article{Bailie2015SemitransparentPS,
  title={Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells for tandems with silicon and CIGS},
  author={Colin D. Bailie and M. Greyson Christoforo and Jonathan P. Mailoa and Andrea R. Bowring and Eva L. Unger and William H. Nguyen and Julian Burschka and Norman Pellet and Jungwoo Lee and Michael Gr{\"a}tzel and Rommel N. Noufi and Tonio Buonassisi and Alberto Salleo and Michael D. McGehee},
  journal={Energy and Environmental Science},
  year={2015},
  volume={8},
  pages={956-963}
}
A promising approach for upgrading the performance of an established low-bandgap solar technology without adding much cost is to deposit a high bandgap polycrystalline semiconductor on top to make a tandem solar cell. We use a transparent silver nanowire electrode on perovskite solar cells to achieve a semi-transparent device. We place the semi-transparent cell in a mechanically-stacked tandem configuration onto copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) and low-quality multicrystalline silicon… 
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