History and latest development of ferroelectric-semiconductor coupled photovoltaic devices

Yang Biao; Liu Xiang-Xin; Li Hui

doi:10.7498/aps.64.038807

Abstract

This paper introduces the history and current research status of the novel ferroelectric-semiconductor coupled photovoltaic devices, in which a ferroelectric field of polarized dipoles from nanoparticles separates the photogenerated carriers. Fabrication of such devices by combining a CdS nanodipole and a CdTe absorber via a feasible method is described, which involves a phase segregation process of CdS from a CdS-CdTe pseudobinary system. An irregular behavior is observed on this type of devices, i.e. the hysteresis of open circuit voltage due to external bias of direct-current (DC) electric field. Other macroscopic and microscopic evidences of the dipole field photovoltaic effect are also described. Meanwhile, similar photovoltaic mechanism observed in other types of solar cells are also discussed, such as organic photovoltaic devices and quantum dot devices with photo-induced dipole polarization field, piezo-phototronic devices, ferroelectric photovoltaic devices, as well as perovskite solar cells. It is apparent that the polarization field of dipoles not only exists in the various types of photovoltaic devices, but also may dominate the behavior of devices. Therefore, we propose that a new concept of dipole field semiconductor devices could be properly used to explain the photovoltaic behavior of both junctional and un-junctional devices. The junctional devices could function with either pn junction or Schottky junction, while the un-junctional devices include all the devices mentioned above. We expect that various innovation should be inspired by this concept in photovoltaic community.

Keywords:

ferroelectric-semiconductor coupled solar cell /
nano-dipole solar cell /
dipole field semiconductor devices

Authors and contacts

1.
Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61274060, 51472239), the Research Foundation of IEE, CAS (Grant No. Y110471CSB), the 100 Talents Preferred Support Program of the CAS (Grant No. Y210431C41), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Innovative and Interdisciplinary Team Award–“High-efficiency Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources Innovative and Interdisciplinary Team”.

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