Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages 8506-8514Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn203438u
Keywords
quantum dot; nanocrystal; mobility; defect density; monodispersity; architecture; diffusion; solar cell; photovoltaic
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [KUS-11-009-21]
- Queen Elizabeth II/Ricoh Canada Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
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Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) offer a path toward high-efficiency photovoltaics based on low-cost materials and processes. Spectral tunability via the quantum size effect facilitates absorption of specific wavelengths from across the sun's broad spectrum. CQD materials' ease of processing derives from their synthesis, storage, and processing in solution. Rapid advances have brought colloidal quantum dot photovoltaic solar power conversion efficiencies of 6% in the latest reports. These achievements represent Important first steps toward commercially compelling performance. Here we review advances In device architecture and materials science. We diagnose the principal phenomenon electronic states within the COD film band gap that limit both current and voltage in devices that must be cured for COD PV devices to fulfill their promise. We close with a prescription, expressed as bounds on the density and energy of electronic states within the COD film band gap, that should allow device efficiencies to rise to those required for the future of the solar energy field.
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