Efficiency improvement using molybdenum disulphide interlayers in single-wall carbon nanotube/silicon solar cells
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2018
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Alzahly, S.
Yu, L.
Shearer, C.
Gibson, C.
Shapter, J.
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Materials, 2018; 11(4):639-1-639-11
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Shaykha Alzahly, LePing Yu, Cameron J. Shearer, Christopher T. Gibson and Joseph G. Shapter
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Molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂) is one of the most studied and widely applied nanomaterials from the layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) semiconductor family. MoS₂ has a large carrier diffusion length and a high carrier mobility. Combining a layered structure of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and MoS₂ with n-type silicon (n-Si) provided novel SWCNT/n-Si photovoltaic devices. The solar cell has a layered structure with Si covered first by a thin layer of MoS₂ flakes and then a SWCNT film. The films were examined using scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The MoS₂ flake thickness ranged from 5 to 90 nm while the nanosheet’s lateral dimensions size ranged up to 1 μm². This insertion of MoS₂ improved the photoconversion efficiency (PCE) of the SWCNT/n-Si solar cells by approximately a factor of 2.
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Published: 21 April 2018
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).