Schottky Solar Cells Based on Colloidal Nancrystal Films

Joseph M. Luther; Matt Law; Matthew C. Beard; Qing Song; Matthew O. Reese; Randy J. Ellingson; Arthur J. Nozik

doi:10.1021/nl802476m

Schottky Solar Cells Based on Colloidal Nancrystal Films

Joseph M. Luther, Matt Law, Matthew C. Beard, Qing Song, Matthew O. Reese, Randy J. Ellingson, Arthur J. Nozik

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Abstract

We describe here a simple, all-inorganic metal/NC/metal sandwich photovoltaic (PV) cell that produces an exceptionally large short-circuit photocurrent (>21 mA cm ^-2) by way of a Schottky junction at the negative electrode. The PV cell consists of a PbSe NC film, deposited via layer-by-layer (LbL) dip coating that yields an EQE of 55-65% in the visible and up to 25% in the infrared region of the solar spectrum, with a spectrally corrected AM1.5G power conversion efficiency of 2.1%. This NC device produces one of the largest short-circuit currents of any nanostructured solar cell, without the need for sintering, superlattice order or separate phases for electron and hole transport.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	3488-3492
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	8
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl802476m https://doi.org/10.1021/nl802476m
State	Published - Oct 2008

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NREL/JA-270-42904

Keywords

dip coating
efficiency
electrons
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
photocurrents
sintering
solar cells
superlattices
transport

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