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| author | Menda, Ugur D. Ribeiro, Guilherme Deuermeier, Jonas López, Esther Nunes, Daniela Jana, Santanu Artacho, Irene Martins, Rodrigo Mora-Seró, Iván Mendes, Manuel J. Ramiro, Iñigo |
| author_facet | Menda, Ugur D. Ribeiro, Guilherme Deuermeier, Jonas López, Esther Nunes, Daniela Jana, Santanu Artacho, Irene Martins, Rodrigo Mora-Seró, Iván Mendes, Manuel J. Ramiro, Iñigo |
| contents | By harvesting a wider range of the solar spectrum, intermediate band solar cells (IBSCs) can achieve efficiencies 50% higher than conventional single-junction solar cells. For this, additional requirements are imposed to the light-absorbing semiconductor, which must contain a collection of in-gap levels, called intermediate band (IB), optically coupled to but thermally decoupled from the valence and conduction bands (VB and CB). Quantum-dot-in-perovskite (QDiP) solids, where inorganic quantum dots (QDs) are embedded in a halide perovskite matrix, have been recently suggested as a promising material platform for developing IBSCs. In this work, QDiP solids with excellent morphological and structural quality and strong absorption and emission related to the presence of in-gap QD levels are synthesized. With them, QDiP-based IBSCs are fabricated and, by means of temperature-dependent photocurrent measurements, it is shown that the IB is strongly thermally decoupled from the valence and conduction bands. The activation energy of the IB$\rightarrow$CB thermal escape of electrons is measured to be 204 meV, resulting in the mitigation of this detrimental process even under room-temperature operation, thus fulfilling the first mandatory requisite to enable high-efficiency IBSCs. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermal-Carrier-Escape Mitigation in a Quantum-Dot-In-Perovskite Intermediate Band Solar Cell via Bandgap Engineering Menda, Ugur D. Ribeiro, Guilherme Deuermeier, Jonas López, Esther Nunes, Daniela Jana, Santanu Artacho, Irene Martins, Rodrigo Mora-Seró, Iván Mendes, Manuel J. Ramiro, Iñigo Materials Science Applied Physics By harvesting a wider range of the solar spectrum, intermediate band solar cells (IBSCs) can achieve efficiencies 50% higher than conventional single-junction solar cells. For this, additional requirements are imposed to the light-absorbing semiconductor, which must contain a collection of in-gap levels, called intermediate band (IB), optically coupled to but thermally decoupled from the valence and conduction bands (VB and CB). Quantum-dot-in-perovskite (QDiP) solids, where inorganic quantum dots (QDs) are embedded in a halide perovskite matrix, have been recently suggested as a promising material platform for developing IBSCs. In this work, QDiP solids with excellent morphological and structural quality and strong absorption and emission related to the presence of in-gap QD levels are synthesized. With them, QDiP-based IBSCs are fabricated and, by means of temperature-dependent photocurrent measurements, it is shown that the IB is strongly thermally decoupled from the valence and conduction bands. The activation energy of the IB$\rightarrow$CB thermal escape of electrons is measured to be 204 meV, resulting in the mitigation of this detrimental process even under room-temperature operation, thus fulfilling the first mandatory requisite to enable high-efficiency IBSCs. |
| title | Thermal-Carrier-Escape Mitigation in a Quantum-Dot-In-Perovskite Intermediate Band Solar Cell via Bandgap Engineering |
| topic | Materials Science Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13305 |