Characterization of basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 and its relevance for photovoltaics
Abstract
Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is a promising absorber material for thin film photovoltaics because of its attractive material, optical and electrical properties. In recent years, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells has gradually enhanced to 5.6%. In this article, we systematically studied the basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 such as dielectric constant, anisotropic mobility, carrier lifetime, diffusion length, defect depth, defect density and optical band tail states. Here, we believe such a comprehensive characterization of the basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 lays a solid foundation for further optimization of solar device performance.
- Authors:
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- Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1351943
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5K00-68320
Journal ID: ISSN 2095-2759
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers of Optoelectronics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2095-2759
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; antimony selenide; Sb2Se3; mobility; lifetime; diffusion length; defects
Citation Formats
Chen, Chao, Bobela, David C., Yang, Ye, Lu, Shuaicheng, Zeng, Kai, Ge, Cong, Yang, Bo, Gao, Liang, Zhao, Yang, Beard, Matthew C., and Tang, Jiang. Characterization of basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 and its relevance for photovoltaics. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1007/s12200-017-0702-z.
Chen, Chao, Bobela, David C., Yang, Ye, Lu, Shuaicheng, Zeng, Kai, Ge, Cong, Yang, Bo, Gao, Liang, Zhao, Yang, Beard, Matthew C., & Tang, Jiang. Characterization of basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 and its relevance for photovoltaics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-017-0702-z
Chen, Chao, Bobela, David C., Yang, Ye, Lu, Shuaicheng, Zeng, Kai, Ge, Cong, Yang, Bo, Gao, Liang, Zhao, Yang, Beard, Matthew C., and Tang, Jiang. Fri .
"Characterization of basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 and its relevance for photovoltaics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-017-0702-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1351943.
@article{osti_1351943,
title = {Characterization of basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 and its relevance for photovoltaics},
author = {Chen, Chao and Bobela, David C. and Yang, Ye and Lu, Shuaicheng and Zeng, Kai and Ge, Cong and Yang, Bo and Gao, Liang and Zhao, Yang and Beard, Matthew C. and Tang, Jiang},
abstractNote = {Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is a promising absorber material for thin film photovoltaics because of its attractive material, optical and electrical properties. In recent years, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells has gradually enhanced to 5.6%. In this article, we systematically studied the basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 such as dielectric constant, anisotropic mobility, carrier lifetime, diffusion length, defect depth, defect density and optical band tail states. Here, we believe such a comprehensive characterization of the basic physical properties of Sb2Se3 lays a solid foundation for further optimization of solar device performance.},
doi = {10.1007/s12200-017-0702-z},
journal = {Frontiers of Optoelectronics},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {3}
}
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Figure 1: The frequency dependent dielectric constant of Sb2Se3. The inset is the ilustration of the parallel plate capacitor with the interspcaing between Au electrodes as 1 mm.
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