Publications by Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Florent Sahli, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Davide Sacchetto, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Gianluca Cattaneo, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay

Tandem devices combining perovskite and silicon solar cells are promising candidates to achieve power conversion efficiencies above 30% at reasonable costs. State-of-the-art monolithic two-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem devices have so far featured sil ...

2018

Hybrid sequential deposition process for fully textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Davide Sacchetto, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Florent Sahli, Arnaud Walter, Gianluca Cattaneo, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay

Tandem solar cells that feature a high-bandgap perovskite cell on top of a lower bandgap silicon cell have the potential to reach efficiencies > 30%. Here, we present a versatile hybrid deposition method that yields conformal perovskite cells directly on t ...

IEEE2018

Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Gabriel Christmann, Florent Sahli, Arnaud Walter, Sylvain Nicolay, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay

Cesium-formamidinium-based mixed-halide perovskite materials with optical band gaps ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 eV are investigated by variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. The determined complex refractive indices are shown to depend on the fabrication p ...

2018

Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

Christophe Ballif, Florent Sahli, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Matthieu Despeisse, Stefaan De Wolf, Sylvain Nicolay, Björn Niesen

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promi-sing candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current designs for monolithic tandems rely ...

2017

Fourier light scattering model for treating textures deeper than the wavelength

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

We apply a Fourier-scattering model to describe light scattering in solar cells with textured surfaces. For the size and inclination angle of typical micro-textures, scattering may occur into large angles. This makes the model prone to paraxial errors. We ...

Optical Society of America2017

Spectrally resolved nonlinearity and temperature dependence of perovskite solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Jérémie Werner

An accurate electrical device characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is an important prerequisite for further improvement and industrial transfer of this promising photovoltaic technology. In this work, we study t ...

Elsevier2017

Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer

Christophe Ballif, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Sylvain Nicolay, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Björn Niesen, Soo-Jin Moon

The effects of a fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode, titanium dioxide (TiO2-x) blocking layer (BL) and perovskite (methyl ammonium lead triiodide) preparation on the overall properties of the photovoltaic cells have been studied. The FTO electrode wa ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

Christophe Ballif, Davide Sacchetto, Florent Sahli, Arnaud Walter, Nicolas Tétreault, Matthieu Despeisse, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sylvain Nicolay, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Stefaan De Wolf

Combining market-proven silicon solar cell technology with an efficient wide band gap top cell into a tandem device is an attractive approach to reduce the cost of photovoltaic systems. For this, perovskite solar cells are promising high-efficiency top cel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016