Non-monotonic effect of growth temperature on carrier collection in SnS solar cells
Abstract
We quantify the effects of growth temperature on material and device properties of thermally evaporated SnS thin-films and test structures. Grain size, Hall mobility, and majority-carrier concentration monotonically increase with growth temperature. Yet, the charge collection as measured by the long-wavelength contribution to short-circuit current exhibits a non-monotonic behavior: the collection decreases with increased growth temperature from 150 °C to 240 °C and then recovers at 285 °C. Fits to the experimental internal quantum efficiency using an opto-electronic model indicate that the non-monotonic behavior of charge-carrier collection can be explained by a transition from drift- to diffusion-assisted components of carrier collection. The results reflect a promising increase in the extracted minority-carrier diffusion length at the highest growth temperature of 285 °C. These findings demonstrate how coupled mechanisms can affect early stage device development, highlighting the critical role of direct materials property measurements and simulation.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1547010
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1226742
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0005329
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Chakraborty, R., Steinmann, V., Mangan, N. M., Brandt, R. E., Poindexter, J. R., Jaramillo, R., Mailoa, J. P., Hartman, K., Polizzotti, A., Yang, C., Gordon, R. G., and Buonassisi, T. Non-monotonic effect of growth temperature on carrier collection in SnS solar cells. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4921326.
Chakraborty, R., Steinmann, V., Mangan, N. M., Brandt, R. E., Poindexter, J. R., Jaramillo, R., Mailoa, J. P., Hartman, K., Polizzotti, A., Yang, C., Gordon, R. G., & Buonassisi, T. Non-monotonic effect of growth temperature on carrier collection in SnS solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921326
Chakraborty, R., Steinmann, V., Mangan, N. M., Brandt, R. E., Poindexter, J. R., Jaramillo, R., Mailoa, J. P., Hartman, K., Polizzotti, A., Yang, C., Gordon, R. G., and Buonassisi, T. Mon .
"Non-monotonic effect of growth temperature on carrier collection in SnS solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921326. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1547010.
@article{osti_1547010,
title = {Non-monotonic effect of growth temperature on carrier collection in SnS solar cells},
author = {Chakraborty, R. and Steinmann, V. and Mangan, N. M. and Brandt, R. E. and Poindexter, J. R. and Jaramillo, R. and Mailoa, J. P. and Hartman, K. and Polizzotti, A. and Yang, C. and Gordon, R. G. and Buonassisi, T.},
abstractNote = {We quantify the effects of growth temperature on material and device properties of thermally evaporated SnS thin-films and test structures. Grain size, Hall mobility, and majority-carrier concentration monotonically increase with growth temperature. Yet, the charge collection as measured by the long-wavelength contribution to short-circuit current exhibits a non-monotonic behavior: the collection decreases with increased growth temperature from 150 °C to 240 °C and then recovers at 285 °C. Fits to the experimental internal quantum efficiency using an opto-electronic model indicate that the non-monotonic behavior of charge-carrier collection can be explained by a transition from drift- to diffusion-assisted components of carrier collection. The results reflect a promising increase in the extracted minority-carrier diffusion length at the highest growth temperature of 285 °C. These findings demonstrate how coupled mechanisms can affect early stage device development, highlighting the critical role of direct materials property measurements and simulation.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4921326},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 20,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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