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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0055429
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [12004100, 12074009]
- Key Scientific Research Foundation for Universities of Henan Province [21A140006]
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This study investigates the use of Li-based selenized CZTS surface treatment to improve the open-circuit voltage deficit in thin film solar cells, effectively suppressing carrier nonradiative recombination and facilitating electron transmission.
Usually, open-circuit voltage (V-oc) of thin film solar cells significantly depends on the band bending at the front interface of an absorber/ buffer. The failed band bending at a Cu2ZnSnS4/CdS (CZTS/CdS) interface severely hinders the increase in V-oc due to the excessively high concentration of holes at the CZTS side. Alleviating the strong p-type or converting it to weak n-type at the CZTS surface is a credible idea to overcome the V-oc- deficit. First-principles calculations show that the Li-based selenized CZTS surface presents the desired property with excellent advantages: (i) The greatly improved defects and band offset suppress carrier nonradiative recombination and facilitate electrons transmission, respectively. (ii) Its intrinsic weak n-type characteristic effectively promotes the large band bending at the interface. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.
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