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Semi-transparent Solar Cells (ST-SCs) has emerged as one of the mostprominent energy harvesting technology that combines the benefits of lighttransparency and light-to-electricity conversion. The biggest opportunities forsuch technologies lie in their integration as windows and skylights withinenergy-sustainable buildings or combining them with other solar celltechnologies in tandem configuration. The performance of ST-SCs is mainlydetermined by the trade-off between the competing parameters of the capabilityto convert the incident light into electricity while allowing some parts totransmit providing transparency through the device. Depending on the targetapplication, the selection of ST-SCs is a tricky affair as some devices mightoffer high efficiency but compromises transparency and vice-versa. On the otherway around, this is again not helped by the fact that due to advancements inmaterials engineering, processing, and characterization, a vastly differentcombination of efficiency and transparency has been reported by researchgroups. So, in order to quantify the performance of ST-SCs, we proposed, afigure-of-merit (FoM) which can be used as a tool that can help in analysingand comparing the performance among various ST-SCs. The defined FoM focuses onthe power conversion efficiency of the device, bifaciality factor,transmittance in the desired region, and that corresponding to 550 nmwavelength. Additionally, in this work, we have been shown how the proposed FoMcan be correlated for tandem and building-integrated photovoltaicsapplications. Based on these resultant parameters, FoM is calculated andcompared for different device architectures available in the literature. Theproposed FoM shall serve as a meaningful guiding path to the researchers forthe development of advanced ST-SCs.

Figure-of-merit for Semi-transparent Solar Cells