• 文献标题:   Very high open-circuit voltage in dual-gate graphene/silicon heterojunction solar cells
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WON UY, LY TH, KIM YR, KANG WT, SHIN YS, LEE KY, HEO JS, KIM KN, LEE YH, YU WJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene/silicon, dual gate, heterojuction, solar cell, shockley queisser sq limit
  • 出版物名称:   NANO ENERGY
  • ISSN:   2211-2855 EI 2211-3282
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sungkyunkwan Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.08.052
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Two dimensional (2D) layered materials and their heterojunctions with other materials are attracted because of their remarkable electrical and optical properties. In particular, graphene/semiconductor Schottky heterojunction is used for high performance solar cells. Here, we demonstrated very high open circuit voltage (V-oc) in graphene/silicon heterojunction solar cell by dual-gate electric field application. The low density of states near Dirac point in graphene allows large modulation of graphene Fermi-level and corresponding Schottky barrier in a graphene/silicon junction. The top and bottom gate electric fields independently adjust the built-in potentials of respective upper and lower silicon energy band to induce higher band bending (1.22 eV) than the bandgap (1.12 eV). As a result, a maximum V-oc of 0.94 V is achieved at the - 8 V of top-gate voltage and 10 V of bottom-gate voltage, exceeding highest known V-oc for previous graphene/silicon solar cell (V-oc = 0.61 V) and the S-Q Limit (0.84 V) of conventional silicon solar cell - a thermodynamic limit for the energy conversion efficiency of solar cells with a single band gap energy. The ratio of output power gain to input gate power (Delta P-G/Delta P-C) is approximately 10(12)-10(14) with negligible power consumption in the gate (P-C = 1 fW/cm(2)-10 pW/cm(2)), resulting in the significant advances in the power generation (P-G = 40 mW/cm(2)).