Doping-free Janus homojunction solar cell with efficiency exceeding 23%
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| author | Li, Lei Yang, Zi-Xuan Huang, Tao Wan, Hui Chen, Wu-Yu Zhang, Tao Huang, Gui-Fang Hu, Wangyu Huang, Wei-Qing |
| author_facet | Li, Lei Yang, Zi-Xuan Huang, Tao Wan, Hui Chen, Wu-Yu Zhang, Tao Huang, Gui-Fang Hu, Wangyu Huang, Wei-Qing |
| contents | Photovoltaic solar cell is one of the main renewable energy sources, and its power conversion efficiency (PCE) is improved by employing doping or heterojunction to reduce the photogenerated carrier recombination. Here, we propose a doping-free homojunction solar cell utilizing two-dimensional Janus semiconductors to achieve high PCE. Thanks to the intrinsic dipole of Janus structure, doping-free Janus homojunction has naturally not only a type-II band alignment to promote the photoexciton dissociation, but also a smaller effective bandgap to enhance light absorption. More importantly, the intrinsic electric field across the Janus structure will drive photoinduced electron and hole transfer from the interface to the opposite transport layers respectively, significantly enhancing the efficiency of carrier separation and transport. We illustrate the concept in titanium-based Janus monolayer homojunction, where the theoretically observed PCE reaches 23.22% of TiSSe homojunction. Our work opens a novel avenue to design low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. |
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| spellingShingle | Doping-free Janus homojunction solar cell with efficiency exceeding 23% Li, Lei Yang, Zi-Xuan Huang, Tao Wan, Hui Chen, Wu-Yu Zhang, Tao Huang, Gui-Fang Hu, Wangyu Huang, Wei-Qing Applied Physics Photovoltaic solar cell is one of the main renewable energy sources, and its power conversion efficiency (PCE) is improved by employing doping or heterojunction to reduce the photogenerated carrier recombination. Here, we propose a doping-free homojunction solar cell utilizing two-dimensional Janus semiconductors to achieve high PCE. Thanks to the intrinsic dipole of Janus structure, doping-free Janus homojunction has naturally not only a type-II band alignment to promote the photoexciton dissociation, but also a smaller effective bandgap to enhance light absorption. More importantly, the intrinsic electric field across the Janus structure will drive photoinduced electron and hole transfer from the interface to the opposite transport layers respectively, significantly enhancing the efficiency of carrier separation and transport. We illustrate the concept in titanium-based Janus monolayer homojunction, where the theoretically observed PCE reaches 23.22% of TiSSe homojunction. Our work opens a novel avenue to design low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. |
| title | Doping-free Janus homojunction solar cell with efficiency exceeding 23% |
| topic | Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12374 |