Screening-engineered field-effect solar cells

William Regan; Steven Byrnes; Will Gannett; Onur Ergen; Oscar Vazquez-Mena; Feng Wang; Alex Zettl

doi:10.1021/nl3020022

Screening-engineered field-effect solar cells

William Regan, Steven Byrnes, Will Gannett, Onur Ergen, Oscar Vazquez-Mena, Feng Wang, Alex Zettl^*

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Abstract

Photovoltaics (PV) are a promising source of clean renewable energy, but current technologies face a cost-to-efficiency trade-off that has slowed widespread implementation.(1, 2) We have developed a PV architecture - screening-engineered field-effect photovoltaics (SFPV) - that in principle enables fabrication of low-cost, high efficiency PV from virtually any semiconductor, including the promising but hard-to-dope metal oxides, sulfides, and phosphides.(3) Prototype SFPV devices have been constructed and are found to operate successfully in accord with model predictions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4300-4304
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl3020022
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	135864

Keywords

earth abundant semiconductors
electric field effect
Photovoltaics
Schottky barriers

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