Effects of nanowire texturing on the performance of Si/organic hybrid solar cells fabricated with a 2.2 μm thin-film Si absorber

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作者
He, Lining [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Jiang, Changyun [2 ]
Wang, Hao [1 ,3 ]
Lai, Donny [1 ,3 ]
Tan, Yew Heng [1 ]
Tan, Chuan Seng [1 ,3 ]
Rusli [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Nanyang Technol Univ, Nanofabricat Ctr, Sch Elect & Elect Engn, Singapore 639798, Singapore
[2] ASTAR, Inst Mat Res & Engn, Singapore 117602, Singapore
[3] CINTRA, CNRS NTU THALES, UMI 3288, Singapore 637553, Singapore
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PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON; ARRAYS; PROGRESS; DEVICES; SINGLE; GLASS;
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10.1063/1.3692590
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Hybrid solar cells are fabricated by spin coating poly(3,4-ethylene-dioxythiophene): polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) on planar Si and Si-nanowires (SiNWs) arrays prepared by electroless chemical etching. With only a 2.2 mu m thick Si absorber thin film, the short-circuit current density and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of SiNWs/PEDOT cell increase from 12.5 to 13.6 mA/cm(2) and from 5.4% to 5.6%, respectively, as compared to planar Si/PEDOT cell. A maximum external quantum efficiency of 56.6% is obtained for the SiNWs/PEDOT cell. The promising PCE obtained demonstrates the potential of realizing Si/PEDOT and SiNWs/PEDOT hybrid cells using low-cost Si thin films instead of bulk Si substrate. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3692590]
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