PMID- 29986500
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240329
IS  - 2079-4991 (Print)
IS  - 2079-4991 (Electronic)
IS  - 2079-4991 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 7
DP  - 2018 Jul 7
TI  - Greatly Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells via 
      Metal Oxide.
LID - 10.3390/nano8070505 [doi]
LID - 505
AB  - Band-gap alignment engineering has now been extensively studied due to its high 
      potential for application. Here we demonstrate a simple route to synthesize two 
      metal oxide layers and align them together according to their bandgaps on the 
      surface of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. The metal oxide layers not 
      only extend absorption spectrum to generate extra carriers but also more 
      efficiently separate electron(-)hole pairs. As a consequence, the photovoltaic 
      performance of SnO(2)/CdO/Si double-layer solar cell (DLSC) is highly improved 
      compared to the controlled Si solar cell, CdO/Si and SnO(2)/Si single-layer solar 
      cells (SLSCs). Via alignment engineering, the SnO(2)/CdO/Si DLSC produces a short 
      circuit photocurrent (J(sc)) of 38.20 mA/cm(2), an open circuit photovoltage 
      (V(oc)) of 0.575 V and a fill factor (FF) of 68.7%, a conversion efficiency 
      (η) of 15.09% under AM1.5 illumination.
FAU - Zhou, Lingling
AU  - Zhou L
AD  - Department of Food and Environmental Engineering, Chuzhou Vocational and 
      Technical College, Chuzhou 239000, China. zhoulingling2018@gmail.com.
FAU - Xiao, Lufei
AU  - Xiao L
AD  - Department of Food and Environmental Engineering, Chuzhou Vocational and 
      Technical College, Chuzhou 239000, China. tangshiyong001@gmail.com.
FAU - Yang, Hai
AU  - Yang H
AD  - The Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry and Shanghai Key 
      Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai 
      Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China. benjaejong@gmail.com.
FAU - Liu, Jie
AU  - Liu J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2043-4119
AD  - The Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry and Shanghai Key 
      Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai 
      Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China. liujie@shnu.edu.cn.
FAU - Yu, Xibin
AU  - Yu X
AD  - The Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry and Shanghai Key 
      Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai 
      Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China. xibinyu@shnu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180707
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Nanomaterials (Basel)
JT  - Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101610216
PMC - PMC6070793
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - electron-hole pairs
OT  - semiconductors
OT  - silicon solar cells
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2018/07/11 06:00
MHDA- 2018/07/11 06:01
PMCR- 2018/07/07
CRDT- 2018/07/11 06:00
PHST- 2018/06/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/07/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/07/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/07/11 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/07/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/07/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/07/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nano8070505 [pii]
AID - nanomaterials-08-00505 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/nano8070505 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nanomaterials (Basel). 2018 Jul 7;8(7):505. doi: 10.3390/nano8070505.