Tamilselvan, Muthusamy and Byregowda, Archana and Su, Ching-Yuan and Tseng, Chung-Jen and Bhattacharyya, Aninda J (2019) Planar Heterojunction Solar Cell Employing a Single-Source Precursor Solution-Processed Sb2S3 Thin Film as the Light Absorber. In: ACS OMEGA, 4 (7). pp. 11380-11387.
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Abstract
We discuss here a solution-processed thin film of antimony trisulphide (Sb2S3; band gap approximate to 1.7 eV; electronic configuration: ns(2)np(0)) for applications in planar heterojunction (PHJ) solar cells. An alternative solution processing method involving a single-metal organic precursor, viz., metal-butyldithiocarbamic acid complex, is used to grow the thin films of Sb2S3. Because of excess sulphide in the metal complex, the formation of any oxide is nearly retarded. Sb2S3 additionally displays structural anisotropy with a ribbon-like structure along the 001] direction. These ribbon-like structures, if optimally oriented with respect to the electron transport layer (ETL)/glass substrate, can be beneficial for light-harvesting and charge-transport properties. A PHJ solar cell is fabricated comprising Sb2S3 as the light absorber and CdS as an ETL coated on to FTO. With varying film sintering temperature and thickness, the typical ribbon-like structures predominantly with planes hkl: l = 0 stacked horizontally along with respect to CdS/FTO are obtained. The morphology of the films is observed to be a function of the sintering temperature, with higher sintering temperatures yielding compact and smooth films with large-sized grains. Maximum photon to electricity efficiency of 2.38 is obtained for PHJ solar cells comprising 480 nm thick films of Sb2S3 sintered at 350 degrees C having a grain size of few micrometers (>5 mu m). The study convincingly shows that improper grain orientation, which may lead to nonoptimal alignments of the intrinsic structure with regard to the ETL/glass substrate, is not the sole parameter for determining photovoltaics performance. Other solution-processing parameters can still be suitably chosen to generate films with optimum morphology, leading to high photon to electricity efficiency.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | ACS OMEGA |
| Publisher: | AMER CHEMICAL SOC |
| Additional Information: | copyright for this article belongs to AMER CHEMICAL SOC |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2019 08:01 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2019 08:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/63658 |
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