1. Li+&Ag+ and Li+&Cd2+ double-ion-doping strategy to improve the efficiency of Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells
- Author
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Xintong Zhang, Yichun Liu, Daocheng Pan, Yuxiang Wang, Lingling Wang, Shaotong Wang, Yue Liu, Junye Tong, Liping Chen, and Gang Wang
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Materials science ,Single ion ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Ion doping ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,Doping ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Microstructure ,Grain size ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Ion doping strategy is a promising method to enhance the efficiency of Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) solar cells, however, most of the reported works focus on studying the single ion doping in CZTSSe absorber layers. Here, Li+&Ag+ and Li+&Cd2+ double-ion-doping strategy are applied to improve the microstructure and device performances. We found that the double-ion-doping strategy can obviously increase the grain size, reduce the thickness of fine-grain layers and enhance the device performances. Furthermore, the PCEs of Li+&Ag+ and Li+&Cd2+ doped CZTSSe solar cells are up to 8.87% and 8.39%, respectively. It shows an encouraging improvement of over 43.5% and 35.8% enhancement compared with the traditional method (6.18%), and significantly higher than single ion doping strategy (7.60%, 7.99% and 7.11% for Li+, Ag+, and Cd2+ doped CZTSSe solar cells). This work provides a new solution to improve the microstructure and device performances of CZTSSe solar cells.
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- 2021