High open-circuit voltage Mos2 homojunction - effect of Schottky barriers at the contacts
| Autor: | Elisa Antolin, Carlos Bueno-Blanco, Simon A. Svatek, Kenji Watanabe, Pablo Garcia-Linares, Marius H. Zehender, Takashi Taniguchi, Carlos Macias, Marcos Garcia-Sanchez, Der-Yuh Lin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
Equivalent series resistance business.industry Open-circuit voltage Schottky barrier Doping Schottky diode Heterojunction 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Semiconductor Optoelectronics Homojunction 0210 nano-technology business |
| Zdroj: | 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/pvsc45281.2020.9301009 |
| Popis: | Van der Waals structures made of layered semiconductor materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have been proposed for the development of ultra-thin photovoltaic devices. The main limitation of these solar cells up to now has been their low open-circuit voltage (Voc), which is typically below 0.55 V even for high illumination levels. Recently, we have presented a p-n Mos 2 homojunction that exhibits a Voc of 1.02 V under broadband illumination equivalent to 40 suns. The use of substitutionally-doped $p$ and $n$ Mos 2 material instead of a heterojunction is crucial to produce a band alignment that enables high Voc. Another important aspect for the realization of large photovoltages in TMDC solar cells is the optimization of metallic contacts. We demonstrate using a simple circuital model that the presence of Schottky barriers at the semiconductor/metal interfaces does not only introduce a non-ohmic series resistance, but also reduces the Voc because the Schottky diodes are photoactive. We characterize the Schottky barrier produced by different metals in combination with $p$ and $n$ Mos 2 . When p-flakes are deposited directly onto a SiO 2 /Si substrate, we find that they are depleted from carriers by a surface doping effect. This depletion contributes to aggravate the effect of the p-MoS 2 /metal Schottky. We show that inserting a flake of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) between the p-material and the SiO 2 surface eliminates this effect. Given the already demonstrated strong light absorption of TMDC ultra-thin devices, the achievement of high Voc is a turning point in the path towards high-efficiency TMDC solar cells. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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