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- Title
Efficiency Enhancement of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Microwave-Exfoliated Few-Layer Black Phosphorus.
- Authors
Bat‐Erdene, Munkhjargal; Batmunkh, Munkhbayar; Tawfik, Sherif Abdulkader; Fronzi, Marco; Ford, Michael J.; Shearer, Cameron J.; Yu, LePing; Dadkhah, Mahnaz; Gascooke, Jason R.; Gibson, Christopher T.; Shapter, Joseph G.
- Abstract
Carbon nanotube-silicon (CNT-Si)-based heterojunction solar cells (HJSCs) are a promising photovoltaic (PV) system. Herein, few-layer black phosphorus (FL-BP) sheets are produced in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) using microwave-assisted liquid-phase exfoliation and introduced into the CNTs-Si-based HJSCs for the first time. The NMP-based FL-BP sheets remain stable after mixing with aqueous CNT dispersion for device fabrication. Due to their unique 2D structure and p-type dominated conduction, the FL-BP/NMP incorporated CNT-Si devices show an impressive improvement in the power conversion efficiency from 7.52% (control CNT-Si cell) to 9.37%. Our density-functional theory calculation reveals that lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of FL-BP is higher in energy than that of single-walled CNT. Therefore, we observed a reduction in the orbitals localized on FL-BP upon highest occupied molecular orbital to LUMO transition, which corresponds to an improved charge transport. This study opens a new avenue in utilizing 2D phosphorene nanosheets for next-generation PVs.
- Subjects
CARBON nanotubes; SOLAR cells; MICROWAVES; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOVOLTAIC cells; PYRROLIDINONES
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 48, pn/a
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.201704488