Screen Engineered Field Effect CuO Based Solar Cells

Onur Ergen*, Ecem Celik, Ahmet Hamdi Unal, Mert Yusuf Erdolu

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Abstract

We demonstrate cuprous oxide (Cu2O) based screen engineered field effect solar cells with a record breaking efficiency, exceeding 3.486%, for Cu2O based p-n homojunction. In this architecture, CuO nanowire interphase is successfully employed in the Cu2O fabrication by effectively serving as a simultaneous ohmic current collector. These screen engineered field effect photovoltaic principles are essential in developing promising photovoltaics architectures for hard-to-dope materials that, in principle, enable extremely low-cost, high efficiency solar cells.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9097170
Pages (from-to)1138-1140
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Electron Device Letters
Volume41
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Photovoltaics
  • Schottky barriers
  • cuprous oxide
  • earth abundant semiconductors
  • electric field effect
  • hard to dope materials
  • solar cell

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