Halide Perovskite Solar Cells for Building Integrated Photovoltaics: Transforming Building Façades into Power Generators

The rapid emergence of organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites for low‐cost and high‐efficiency photovoltaics promises to impact new photovoltaic concepts. Their high power conversion efficiencies, ability to coat perovskite layers on glass via various scalable deposition techniques, excellent optoelectronic properties, and synthetic versatility for modulating transparency and color allow perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to be an ideal solution for building‐integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs), which transforms windows or façades into electric power generators. In this review, the unique features and properties of PSCs for BIPV application are accessed. Device engineering and optical management strategies of active layers, interlayers, and electrodes for semitransparent, bifacial, and colorful PSCs are also discussed. The performance of PSCs under conditions that are relevant for BIPV such as different operational temperature, light intensity, and light incident angle are also reviewed. Recent outdoor stability testing of PSCs in different countries and other demonstration of scalability and deployment of PSCs are also spotlighted. Finally, the current challenges and future opportunities for realizing perovskite‐based BIPV are discussed.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Advances in Materials

• Publication date

  2021-10-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/adma.202104661PMID 34699646
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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