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Two-terminalt and tandem solar-cells have a high efficiency of power conversion. One of their main limitations is the operating current density as the two-terminal tandem solar-cell is equivalent to electrically connected series subcells. Increasing the top absorber layer’s thickness will lead to an increase in the top subcell current and a decrease in the bottom subcell’s current. The subcell with the minimum current forces the tandem cell to operate at its value, limiting the overall performance. In this paper, a proposed solution for such a problem is introduced using a bottom subcell consisting of germanium-telluride (GeTe), which gives a high current and matches the top subcell at a thicker absorber layer. A proposal of three different tandem cells with perovskite (MAPbI 3 )/CIGS, perovskite (MAPbI 3 )/GeTe, and perovskite (MAPbI 3-x Cl x )/GeTe have been presented. The proposed perovskite (MAPbI 3 )/CIGS has an efficiency of 30.52%, whereas the replacement of the CIGS bottom subcell by GeTe led to a significant enhancement of the efficiency to reach 35.9%. High efficiency of 41.7% is obtained by replacing the perovskite (MAPbI 3 ) top subcell with perovskite (MAPbI 3-x Cl x ). A modified numerical algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimum thickness of the top subcell to achieve higher power-conversion efficiency. The performance evaluation and simulation of the designed tandem cells were carried out using SCAPS-1D. The temperature effects on the proposed cells have been encountered in simulation. The results show that the proposed tandem solar-cells have comparable performance and higher efficiencies relative to the published works.
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