Ultrathin microcrystalline hydrogenated Si/Ge alloyed tandem solar cells towards full solar spectrum conversion

Cao, Yu; Zhu, Xiaoli; Tong, Xunqian; Zhou, Jing; Ni, Jian; Zhang, Jianjun; Pang, Jinbo

doi:10.1007/s11705-019-1906-0

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“…Thin‐film solar cells (TFSCs) based on semiconductors have been attracting great consideration for photovoltaic device application owing to their pollution‐free system, low cost, ease of fabrication, excellent optoelectronic properties, and highly efficient power conversion. [ 1–14 ] However, further enhancement in conversion efficiency of the TFSCs has been limited due to low elemental abundance, expensive, and high toxicity of materials. Although several prominent studies have been investigated to explore alternative nontoxic, earth‐abundant, and cost‐effective absorber materials in the TFSCs to overcome the limitations, [ 15–19 ] no previous attempts have been successful to achieve satisfactory conversion efficiency by the materials.…”

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Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Sunny

Ahmed

2021

Physica Status Solidi (b)

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This work reports a numerical investigation on the performance of Sb2Se3‐based thin‐film heterojunction solar cell using the solar cell capacitance simulator in 1D (SCAPS‐1D) program. Herein, inorganic tin sulfide (SnS) is introduced as a new hole transport material into the Sb2Se3 solar cell. The effects of several parameters such as thickness, doping, electron affinity, defect density, temperature, and resistances on the cell performances are analyzed. The proposed novel solar configuration that consists of Al/F:SnO2 (FTO)/CdS/Sb2Se3/SnS/Mo reveals the enhanced photovoltaic performances by means of reducing carrier recombination loss at back surface. At an optimized Sb2Se3 thickness of 1.0 μm, the efficiency is boosted from 24.01% to 29.89% by incorporating an ultrathin 0.05 μm SnS hole transport layer (HTL) into the Sb2Se3 solar cell. The performances of the proposed device are also evaluated by varying defects at CdS/Sb2Se3 and Sb2Se3/SnS interfaces. Moreover, it is found that electron affinity larger than 3.5 eV of HTL as well as back contact metal work function ≥4.9 eV should be considered to attain better performance. The simulated results lead to suggest that introducing the SnS material as a potential HTL candidate would be useful to develop low‐cost and highly efficient thin‐film solar cells.

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Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Sunny

Ahmed

2021

Physica Status Solidi (b)

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“…Energy-environmental catastrophes elicited via soaring population and hasty industrialization are the foremost tribulations of the past decade. In this regard, photocatalysts has evolved as a revolutionary and sustainable resolution [4][5][6][7]52]. BiVO 4 as a visible-light response photocatalyst has shown tremendous potential for hydrogen evolution and degradation of organic pollutants because of abundant raw material sources, good stability, low cost, and narrow band gap [8,9,20,36,39].…”

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Highly efficient BiVO₄ single-crystal nanosheets with dual modification: phosphorus doping and selective Ag modification

Fu¹,

Xu²,

Li³

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Nanotechnology

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BiVO4, a visible-light response photocatalyst, has shown tremendous potential because of abundant raw material sources, good stability and low cost. There exist some limitations for further applicaitions due to poor capability to separate electron–hole pairs. In fact, a single-component modification strategy is barely adequate to obtain highly efficient photocatalytic performance. In this work, P substituted some of the V atoms from VO4 oxoanions, namely P was doped into the V sites in the host lattice of BiVO4 by a hydrothermal route. Meanwhile, Ag as an attractive and efficient electron-cocatalyst was selectively modified on the (010) facet of BiVO4 nanosheets via facile photo-deposition. As a result, the obtained dually modified BiVO4 sheets exhibited enhanced photocatalytic degradation property of methylene blue (MB). In detail, photocatalytic rate constant (k) was 2.285 min−1 g−1, which was 2.78 times higher than pristine BiVO4 nanosheets. Actually, P-doping favored the formation of O vacancies, led to more charge carriers, and facilitated photocatalytic reaction. On the other hand, metallic Ag loaded on (010) facet effectively transferred photogenerated electrons, which consequently helped electron–hole pairs separation. The present work may enlighten new thoughts for smart design and controllable synthesis of highly efficient photocatalytic materials.

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“…Until 100 kinds of MXenes have been discovered through ab-initio calculation, more than 25 types of MXene could be obtained 22 . Several research papers and reviews belonging to photonics, optoelectronics, photothermal therapy, energy conversion, and storage applications of 2D MXene-based materials have been reported [42][43][44][45] . 25,[46][47][48][49][50] .…”

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The tunable electric and magnetic properties of 2D MXenes and their potential applications

Shukla

2020

Mater. Adv.

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Ultrathin microcrystalline hydrogenated Si/Ge alloyed tandem solar cells towards full solar spectrum conversion

Cited by 34 publications

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Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Highly efficient BiVO₄ single-crystal nanosheets with dual modification: phosphorus doping and selective Ag modification

The tunable electric and magnetic properties of 2D MXenes and their potential applications

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Ultrathin microcrystalline hydrogenated Si/Ge alloyed tandem solar cells towards full solar spectrum conversion

Cited by 34 publications

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Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb2Se3 Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb2Se3 Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Highly efficient BiVO4 single-crystal nanosheets with dual modification: phosphorus doping and selective Ag modification

The tunable electric and magnetic properties of 2D MXenes and their potential applications

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Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb₂Se₃ Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

Highly efficient BiVO₄ single-crystal nanosheets with dual modification: phosphorus doping and selective Ag modification