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Highly Efficient Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Enabled by Modification of Band Profile of CIGS Bottom Cell
Authors
Passarut Boonmongkolras, Jaehyuk Koh, Hojin Lee, Seunghwan Ji, Jihye Gwak, Kihwan Kim, Byungha Shin
Journal
Energy Material Advances
Year
2026

This study examined the potential of narrow-bandgap (<1.1 eV) Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) for use in monolithic perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells, which have promising applications in flexible and lightweight photovoltaic systems. Single-graded (SG) and double-graded (DG) band profiles were developed for CIGS bottom cells. Their performance was compared both under 1 Sun condition and under red illumination, which is closer to the illumination condition for a bottom cell in the tandem configuration. While DG cells showed higher performance under 1 Sun, under filtered red light, SG cells exhibited superior performance due to a larger gain in fill factor, which was due to less FF loss originating from voltage-dependent photocurrent than DG CIGS. A careful bandgap matching between a perovskite top cell and an SG CIGS bottom cell led to a bandgap combination of 1.65 eV for the top cell and 1.04 eV for the bottom cell, resulting in a champion perovskite/SG CIGS tandem solar cell with an in-house power conversion efficiency of 25.1%.