Recent Advances in Perovskite-Based Building-Integrated Photovoltaics.

Munkhbayar Batmunkh,Yu Lin Zhong,Huijun Zhao

doi:10.1002/adma.202000631

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Abstract

Perovskite-based solar cells have attracted great attention due to their low cost and high photovoltaic (PV) performance. In addition to their success in the PV sector, there has been growing interest in employing perovskites in energy-efficient smart windows and other building technologies owing to their large absorption coefficient and color tunability. The major challenge lies in integrating perovskite materials into windows and building facades and combining them with added functionalities while maintaining their remarkable power conversion efficiencies. Herein, advances that have been made in the application of perovskites to building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) in four areas are highlighted: semitransparent windows, colorful wall facades, electrochromic windows, and thermochromic windows. In addition, the opportunities and challenges of this cutting-edge research area and important roadmaps for the future use of perovskites in BIPVs are discussed.

Highlights

Perovskites are excellent solar harvesting materials and have gained a great deal of attention from the photovoltaic (PV) community over the past ten years.[1]
That have been made in the application of perovskites to building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) in four areas are highlighted: semitransparent windows, colorful wall facades, electrochromic windows, and thermochromic windows
The first advance in combining thermochromic perovskite and light-harvesting perovskite into a single smart PV window (SPW) was reported by Wheeler et al.[28], who designed a lead-based perovskite solar window that can switch from transparent to opaque at 60 °C

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Introduction

Perovskites are excellent solar harvesting materials and have gained a great deal of attention from the photovoltaic (PV) community over the past ten years.[1] In 2009, Miyasaka and his colleagues first reported on organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite semiconductors as active light absorbers in solar cells.[2] In this pioneering work, the best performing device delivered a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.8% and was stable for only a few minutes. Critical roadmaps for future developments of perovskite-based BIPVs to eventualize their large-scale commercialization are offered

Semitransparent PSCs

Colorful PSCs

Perovskite Photovoltachromic Windows

Thermochromic Perovskites for SPWs

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