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Conduction Band Energy-Level Engineering for Improving Open-Circuit Voltage in Antimony Selenide Nanorod Array Solar Cells.

ABSTRACT: Antimony selenide (Sb₂ Se₃ ) nanorod arrays along the [001] orientation are known to transfer photogenerated carriers rapidly due to the strongly anisotropic one-dimensional crystal structure. With advanced light-trapping structures, the Sb₂ Se₃ nanorod array-based solar cells have excellent broad spectral response properties, and higher short-circuit current density than the conventional planar structured thin film solar cells. However, the interface engineering for the Sb₂ Se₃ nanorod array-based solar cell is more crucial to increase the performance, because it is challenging to coat a compact buffer layer with perfect coverage to form a uniform heterojunction interface due to its large surface area and length-diameter ratio. In this work, an intermeshing In₂ S₃ nanosheet-CdS composite as the buffer layer, compactly coating on the Sb₂ Se₃ nanorod surface is constructed. The application of In₂ S₃ -CdS composite buffers build a gradient conduction band energy configuration in the Sb₂ Se₃ /buffer heterojunction interface, which reduces the interface recombination and enhances the transfer and collection of photogenerated electrons. The energy-level regulation minimizes the open-circuit voltage deficit at the interfaces of buffer/Sb₂ Se₃ and buffer/ZnO layers in the Sb₂ Se₃ solar cells. Consequently, the Sb₂ Se₃ nanorod array solar cell based on In₂ S₃ -CdS composite buffers achieves an efficiency of as high as 9.19% with a V_OC of 461 mV.

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