Integrating perovskite photovoltaics with other systems can substantially improve their performance. This Review discusses various integrated perovskite devices for applications including tandem solar cells, buildings, space applications, energy storage, and cell-driven catalysis.
In the past decade, however, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show impressive advances with a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.2% (1) and low fabrication cost, which make this technology promising for further advances in decarbonization energy models (2). Yet the life cycle of PSCs needs to be increased for market integration.
The next-generation applications of perovskite-based solar cells include tandem PV cells, space applications, PV-integrated energy storage systems, PV cell-driven catalysis and BIPVs.
The challenges associated with long-term perovskite solar cell device stability include the role of testing protocols, ionic movement affecting performance metrics over extended periods of time, and determination of the best ways to counteract degradation mechanisms.
Making the processes scalable and reproducible could allow perovskite PV modules to meet or exceed SETO’s levelized cost of electricity goals for PV. Perovskite solar cells are thin-film devices built with layers of materials, either printed or coated from liquid inks or vacuum-based deposition processed.
Table 1 The best-performing perovskite-based tandem solar cells. The long-term stability of PSCs represents a key obstacle for their commercial deployment. Perovskite materials typically used in solar cells have been shown to be unstable when exposed to oxygen, water, heat, and light.