Trilaminar ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3 nanotube arrays for efficient inorganic–organic hybrid solar cells
- 7 May 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 4 (45), 23807-23814
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra02554g
Abstract
Efficient hybrid solid-state solar cells based on novel trilaminar ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3 nanotube arrays (NTs) and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) are fabricated by using a buffer layer using ZnS and surface modification using a sensitizer layer (Sb2S3). Vertically aligned trilaminar ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3 nanotube arrays (NTs) were directly grown on an indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) substrate via a low-cost hydrothermal chemical conversion method based on ion exchange, which is easy to be manipulated and can form uniform structures without destroying the original morphology. The ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3/P3HT hybrid solar cell exhibited an improved short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 5.57 mA cm−2, open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 440 mV, giving rise to a power conversion efficiency of 1.32%. The trilaminar architecture is able to suppress carrier recombination and increase electron collection efficiency via (i) increasing photon absorption through a sensitizer layer (Sb2S3), (ii) forming a buffer layer (ZnS) on the surface of ZnO NTs in the chemical conversion process and (iii) a better energy level alignment in the ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3/P3HT.Keywords
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