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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 26, Issue 45, Pages 8300-8306Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201603441
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- Higher Education Commission Pakistan
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) through Overseas Scholarship
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Material' initiative at the 'Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Bavaria on the Move initiative of the state of Bavaria
- Bavaria Research Foundation (BFS) [1006-11]
- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy [BMWI 11/12]
- Joint Projects Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen Nurnberg (HI-ERN) [DBF01253]
- Bavarian Initiative Solar Technologies go Hybrid (SolTech)
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Effective engineering of surface ligands in semiconductor nanocrystals can facilitate the electronic interaction between the individual nanocrystals, making them promising for low-cost optoelectronic applications. Here, the use of high purity Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanocrystals as the photoactive layer and hole-transporting material is reported in low-temperature solution-processed solar cells. The high purity CZTS nanocrystals are prepared by engineering the surface ligands of CZTS nanocrystals, capped originally with the long-chain organic ligand oleylamine. After ligand removal, CZTS nanocrystals show substantial improvement in photoconductivity and mobility, displaying also an appreciable photoresponse in a simple heterojunction solar cell architecture. More notably, CZTS nanocrystals exhibit excellent hole-transporting properties as interface layer in perovskite solar cells, yielding power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.4% with excellent fill factor (FF) of 81%. These findings underscore the importance of removing undesired surface ligands in nanocrystalline optoelectronic devices, and demonstrate the great potential of CZTS nanocrystals as both active and passive material for the realization of low-cost efficient solar cells.
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