The broadband and omnidirectional antireflective performance of perovskite solar cells with curved nanostructures

Abstract

Various shaped nanostructures have been continually used in the antireflection of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells. A full understanding of the shape-dependent light trapping behavior is the basis for finding the excellent broadband and omnidirectional photovoltaic performance. Hence, three-dimensional models of silica sphere, hemisphere, moth-eye and cone nanostructured perovskite solar cells were performed at omnidirectional angle in this work. We proposed electric field intensity per volume as a key parameter, verifying the transition of light trapping modes of several curved nanostructures from normal incidence to oblique incidence. As the incident angle increases, the antireflection effect of four curved structures becomes increasingly crucial, and the differences among them are also greater. Consequently, the moth-eye nanostructured perovskite solar cell has achieved the best photovoltaic performance considering omnidirectional incidence. The short-circuit current density is increased by 8.4% at normal incidence and increased by 36.4% at 60° incidence compared to the planar reference. Our work offers the theoretical analysis for omnidirectional antireflection structure optimization, and provides guidance for the experimental research and production of potential antireflection structures of solar cell.