Dependence of the solar cell performance on nanocarbon/Si heterojunctions

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/7/078801

Abstract

Solar cells that combine single-crystalline silicon (Si) with graphene (G) have been widely researched in order to develop next-generation photovoltaic devices. However, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of G/Si solar cell without chemical doping is commonly low due to the relatively high resistance of graphene. In this work, through combining graphene with carbon nanotube (CNT) networks, we fabricated three kinds of hybrid nanocarbon film/Si heterojunction solar cells in order to increase the PCE of the graphene based Si solar cell. We investigated the characteristics of different nanocarbon film/Si solar cells and found that their performance depends on the heterojunctions. Specifically, a doping-free G-CNT/Si solar cell demonstrated a high PCE of 7.9%, which is nearly equal to the combined value of two individuals (G/Si and CNT/Si). This high efficiency is attributed to the synergistic effect of graphene and CNTs, and can be further increased to 9.1% after applying a PMMA antireflection coating. This study provides a potential way to further improve the Si based heterojunction solar cells.

Keywords: carbon nanotube graphene heterojunction silicon solar cell

Received: 17 April 2018
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PACS:	88.30.rh	(Carbon nanotubes)
	81.05.ue	(Graphene)
	73.40.Lq	(Other semiconductor-to-semiconductor contacts, p-n junctions, and heterojunctions)
	88.40.jj	(Silicon solar cells)

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Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFA0208402), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB932302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11634014, 51172271, and 51372269), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA09040202).

Corresponding Authors: Weiya Zhou
E-mail: wyzhou@iphy.ac.cn

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Shiqi Xiao(肖仕奇), Qingxia Fan(范庆霞), Xiaogang Xia(夏晓刚), Zhuojian Xiao(肖卓建), Huiliang Chen(陈辉亮), Wei Xi(席薇), Penghui Chen(陈鹏辉), Junjie Li(李俊杰), Yanchun Wang(王艳春), Huaping Liu(刘华平), Weiya Zhou(周维亚) Dependence of the solar cell performance on nanocarbon/Si heterojunctions 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 078801

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