Post-Annealing Treatment on Hydrothermally Grown Antimony Sulfoselenide Thin Films for Efficient Solar Cells

Suman Rijal; Alisha Adhikari; Rasha Awni; Chuanxiao Xiao; Deng-Bing Li; Briana Dokken; Anna Ellingson; Ernesto Flores; Sandip Bista; Dipendra Pokhrel; Sabin Neupane; Richard Irving; Adam Phillips; Katherine Jungjohann; Chun-Sheng Jiang; Mowafak Al-Jassim; Randy Ellingson; Zhaoning Song; Yanfa Yan

doi:10.1002/solr.202201009

Post-Annealing Treatment on Hydrothermally Grown Antimony Sulfoselenide Thin Films for Efficient Solar Cells

Suman Rijal, Alisha Adhikari, Rasha Awni, Chuanxiao Xiao, Deng-Bing Li, Briana Dokken, Anna Ellingson, Ernesto Flores, Sandip Bista, Dipendra Pokhrel, Sabin Neupane, Richard Irving, Adam Phillips, Katherine Jungjohann, Chun-Sheng Jiang, Mowafak Al-Jassim, Randy Ellingson, Zhaoning Song, Yanfa Yan

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Abstract

Herein, antimony sulfoselenide (Sb₂(S, Se)₃) thin-film solar cells are fabricated by a hydrothermal method followed by a post-deposition annealing process at different temperatures and the impact of the annealing temperature on the morphological, structural, optoelectronic, and defect properties of the hydrothermally grown Sb₂(S, Se)₃ films is investigated. It is found that a proper annealing temperature leads to high-quality Sb₂(S, Se)₃ films with large crystal grains, high crystallinity, preferred crystal orientation, smooth and uniform morphology, and reduced defect density. These results show that suppressing deep-level defects is crucial to enhance solar cell performance. After optimizing the annealing process, Sb₂(S, Se)₃ solar cells with an improved power conversion efficiency 2.04 to 8.48% are obtained.

Original language	American English
Article number	2201009
Number of pages	7
Journal	Solar RRL
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202201009 https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202201009
State	Published - 2023

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NREL/JA-5K00-85531

Keywords

annealing
antimony sulfoselenide
defects
hydrothermal growth
thin-film solar cells

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Rijal, S., Adhikari, A., Awni, R., Xiao, C., Li, D.-B., Dokken, B., Ellingson, A., Flores, E., Bista, S., Pokhrel, D., Neupane, S., Irving, R., Phillips, A., Jungjohann, K., Jiang, C.-S., Al-Jassim, M., Ellingson, R., Song, Z., & Yan, Y. (2023). Post-Annealing Treatment on Hydrothermally Grown Antimony Sulfoselenide Thin Films for Efficient Solar Cells. Solar RRL, 7(4), Article 2201009. https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202201009, https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202201009

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