In comparison to monolithic perovskite/perovskite double-junction solar cells, a four-terminal spectrum-splitting system is a simple method to obtain a higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) because it has no constraints of unifying the structures of the top and bottom cells. In this work, utilizing the fact that low-bandgap Sn-Pb bottom cells work the best in p-i-n while Pb-based wide-bandgap top cells work better in an n-i-p architecture, a wide-bandgap ( = 1.61 eV) perovskite solar cell with a mesoscopic structure and a narrow-bandgap ( = 1.27 eV) perovskite solar cell with an inverted structure were combined to fabricate a double-junction four-terminal spectral splitting solar cell. The double-junction solar cell with the 801 nm spectral splitting with an active area of 0.18 cm was found to work with a PCE of 25.3%, which is the highest reported so far for a 4-T all-perovskite double-junction spectral splitting solar cell.

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