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Interface Molecular engineering for laminated monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 80.4% fill factor

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The Cluster of Excellence funded this work through “Engineering of Advanced Materials” (EAM). The authors acknowledge financial support from the DFG research-training group GRK 1896 at Erlangen University and from the Joint Project Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen Nurnberg (HI-ERN) under Project No. DBF01253, respectively. C.J.B. acknowledges the financial support through the “Aufbruch Bayern” initiative of the state of Bavaria (EnCN and Solar Factory of the Future) and the “Solar Factory of the Future” with the Energy Campus Nurnberg (EnCN). S.L. acknowledges the Real Colegio Complutense in Harvard for a research grant, and to the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion for a fellowship through the Salvador de Madariaga Program. L.M.R. and A.A.-G. acknowledge support from Tata Sons Limited – Alliance Agreement (A32391). The computations in this paper were done on the Odyssey cluster supported by the FAS Division of Science, Research Computing Group at Harvard University, and on the Arran cluster supported by the Health Sciences Platform (HSP) at Tianjin University. C.O.R.Q. would like to acknowledge M. Mohrensen for his assistance in graphic design. Similarly, C.O.R.Q. would like to acknowledge Gebhard Matt and Ievgen Levchuk for helpful discussion. G.A. thanks support by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 804110), the Spanish MINECO through the Excellence Unit Maria de Maeztu (MDM-2015-0538), the Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/001), and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; FLAG-ERA AB694/2-1). G.A. would like to acknowledge Vicent Lloret for his assistance with the experimental work. B. R., L.K., S.A., and G.C. acknowledge support from BMWi through the “PersiST” project (Grant No. 0324037C). S.A. acknowledges funding by the BMBF within the project “Materialforschung fur die Energiewende” for his Young Investigator Group (Grant No. 03SF0540). T.A. gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Solar Technologies go Hybrid (SolTech) and Bavarian Equal Opportunities Sponsorship – Forderung von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (FFL). T.U. and M.B. gratefully acknowledge the funding of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Project No. 05K16WEB). C.O.R.Q. would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial support from The Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). C.O.R.Q. wrote the manuscript with comments from all coauthors and highlighted contributions from M.S. C.O.R.Q. coordinated and performed photovoltaic device fabrication. C.O.R.Q. coordinated all experiments, measurements, and simulations. G.D.S. assisted with the tandem lamination process. C.O.R.Q. and K.F. performed optical simulations. M.S., G.D.S., N.L., T.A., and A.A.-G. assisted with data interpretation, story layout design, and contributed ideas. C.O.R.Q., N.S., and E.S. contributed with the electron microscopy analysis. C.O.R.Q., M.B., and T.B. contributed with X-ray studies. C.O.R.Q., G.A., F.H., and A.H. contributed with Raman studies. L.-I.D.-B., and N.G. assisted with PL measurements. N.G. and A.C. assisted with FTPS and PL data analysis and interpretation. M.M., G.C., L.K., B.R., and S.A. provided silicon cells. QM/DFT calculations and analysis were performed by L.M.R. MD parametrization was done by S.L., and MD simulations were performed and analyzed by S.L. and J.D.P. C.J.B. supervised the project.