• 文献标题:   Role of Interfacial Oxide in High-Efficiency Graphene-Silicon Schottky Barrier Solar Cells
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG Y, LI XM, MACKIN C, ZHANG X, FANG WJ, PALACIOS T, ZHU HW, KONG J
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, solar cell, silicon, native oxide
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   205
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl505011f
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

The advent of: Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene has allowed researchers to investigate large area graphene/n-silicon Schottky barrier solar cells: Using chemically,doped graphene, efficiencies, of nearly 10% can be achieved for devices without antireflective,coatings. However, many devices reported in past literature often exhibit a distinctive s-shaped kink in the measured I/V curves under illumination resulting in poor fill factor. This behavior is especially prevalent for devices with pristine (not chemically doped) graphene but can be seen in some cases for doped graphene as well In this work, we show that the native oxide on the Silicon presents a transport :battier for photogenerated holes and causes recombination current, which is responsible for causing the kink. We experimentally verify our hypothesis and propose a simple semiconductor physics model that qualitatively captures the effect. Furthermore, we offer an additional optimization to graphene/n-silicon devices: by choosing the optimal oxide thickness; we can increase the efficiency of our devices to 12.4% after chemical doping and to a new record of 15.6% after applying an antireflective coating.