
: This research designs and simulates a highefficiency tandem solar cell (TSC) using SCAPS-1D (3.3.12), exploiting tandem perovskite technology for enhanced performance. The agenda of our work is here to minimize the two largest losses associated with single-junction solar cells like thermalization and transmission losses by absorbing a broader spectrum of sunlight using CsGeI3/CIGS tandem solar cell technology. To ensure the accuracy of the simulated results, the authors first calibrate both the top and bottom solar cells using experimental data and compare the simulated results with experimental findings. This study investigates the impact of thickness, parasitic resistance, temperature, quantum efficiency, band diagram, absorption coefficients, and two-diode mod el equivalent circuit parameters on solar cell performance. This work optimizes lead-free, wide bandgap (1.6 eV) CsGeI3 perovskite and narrow bandgap (1.1 eV) CIGS solar cells individually and then proposes a tandem solar cell structure using a filtered spectrum approach. The proposed CsGeI3/CIGS tandem solar cell device structure is studied in detail and simulated using SCAPS 1D. A tandem configuration, with a thickness of a 273 nm top cell (simulated under AM1.5G) and a 1000 nm bottom cell, achieved conversion efficiencies of 16.93% and 16.49%, respectively, with respective JSC values of 19.31 mA cm−2/19.32 mA cm−2. By adding the voltages at same current points to make the tandem J-V curve, this design yielded
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