Efficiency Enhancement of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Microwave-Exfoliated Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

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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
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2017
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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.

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Advanced Functional Materials

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27

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48

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Bat-Erdene, M; Batmunkh, M; Tawfik, SA; Fronzi, M; Ford, MJ; Shearer, CJ; Yu, L; Dadkhah, M; Gascooke, JR; Gibson, CT; Shapter, JG, Efficiency Enhancement of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Microwave-Exfoliated Few-Layer Black Phosphorus, Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27 (48), pp. 1704488:1-1704488:9

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