A new metal transfer process for van der Waals contacts to vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics
Abstract
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides are promising candidates for ultrathin optoelectronic devices due to their high absorption coefficients and intrinsically passivated surfaces. To maintain these near-perfect surfaces, recent research has focused on fabricating contacts that limit Fermi-level pinning at the metal-semiconductor interface. Here, we develop a new, simple procedure for transferring metal contacts that does not require aligned lithography. Using this technique, we fabricate vertical Schottky-junction WS2 solar cells, with Ag and Au as asymmetric work function contacts. Under laser illumination, we observe rectifying behavior and open-circuit voltage above 500 mV in devices with transferred contacts, in contrast to resistive behavior and open-circuit voltage below 15 mV in devices with evaporated contacts. One-sun measurements and device simulation results indicate that this metal transfer process could enable high specific power vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics, and we anticipate that this technique will lead to advances for two-dimensional devices more broadly.
- Authors:
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits (PTL)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Resnick Sustainability Institute
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1626028
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019140; 1745301; 1144469
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Science & Technology - Other Topics
Citation Formats
Went, Cora M., Wong, Joeson, Jahelka, Phillip R., Kelzenberg, Michael, Biswas, Souvik, Hunt, Matthew S., Carbone, Abigail, and Atwater, Harry A. A new metal transfer process for van der Waals contacts to vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax6061.
Went, Cora M., Wong, Joeson, Jahelka, Phillip R., Kelzenberg, Michael, Biswas, Souvik, Hunt, Matthew S., Carbone, Abigail, & Atwater, Harry A. A new metal transfer process for van der Waals contacts to vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6061
Went, Cora M., Wong, Joeson, Jahelka, Phillip R., Kelzenberg, Michael, Biswas, Souvik, Hunt, Matthew S., Carbone, Abigail, and Atwater, Harry A. Fri .
"A new metal transfer process for van der Waals contacts to vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6061. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1626028.
@article{osti_1626028,
title = {A new metal transfer process for van der Waals contacts to vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics},
author = {Went, Cora M. and Wong, Joeson and Jahelka, Phillip R. and Kelzenberg, Michael and Biswas, Souvik and Hunt, Matthew S. and Carbone, Abigail and Atwater, Harry A.},
abstractNote = {Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides are promising candidates for ultrathin optoelectronic devices due to their high absorption coefficients and intrinsically passivated surfaces. To maintain these near-perfect surfaces, recent research has focused on fabricating contacts that limit Fermi-level pinning at the metal-semiconductor interface. Here, we develop a new, simple procedure for transferring metal contacts that does not require aligned lithography. Using this technique, we fabricate vertical Schottky-junction WS2 solar cells, with Ag and Au as asymmetric work function contacts. Under laser illumination, we observe rectifying behavior and open-circuit voltage above 500 mV in devices with transferred contacts, in contrast to resistive behavior and open-circuit voltage below 15 mV in devices with evaporated contacts. One-sun measurements and device simulation results indicate that this metal transfer process could enable high specific power vertical Schottky-junction transition metal dichalcogenide photovoltaics, and we anticipate that this technique will lead to advances for two-dimensional devices more broadly.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aax6061},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 12,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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