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In this paper, the wx-AMPS simulation software is used to model and simulate the antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) thin film solar cells. Three different electron transport layer models (CdS, ZnO and SnO2) are applied to the Sb2Se3 solar cells, and the conversion efficiencies of which are obtained to be 7.35%, 7.48% and 6.62% respectively. It can be seen that the application of CdS and ZnO can achieve a better device performance. Then, the electric affinity of the electron transport layer (χe-ETL) is adjusted from 3.8 eV to 4.8 eV to study the effect of the energy band structure change on the solar cell performance. The results show that the conversion efficiency of the Sb2Se3 solar cell first increases and then decreases with the increase of the χe-ETL. The lower χe-ETL creates a barrier at the interface between the electron transport layer and the Sb2Se3 layer, which can be considered as a high resistance layer, resulting in the increase of series resistance. On the other hand, when the χe-ETL is higher than 4.6 eV, the electric field of the electron transport layer can be reversed, leading to the accumulation of the photon-generated carriers at the interface between the transparent conductive film and the electron transport layer, which could also hinder the carrier transport and increase the series resistance. At the same time, the electric field of Sb2Se3 layer becomes weak with the value of χe-ETL increasing according to the band structure of the Sb2Se3 solar cell, leading to the increase of the carriers' recombination and the reduction of the cell parallel resistance. As a result, too high or too low χe-ETL can lower the FF value and cause the device performance to degrade. Thus, to maintain high device performance, from 4.0 eV to 4.4 eV is a suitable range for the χe-ETL of the Sb2Se3 solar cell. Moreover, based on the optimization of the χe-ETL, the enhancement of the Sb2Se3 layer material quality can further improve the solar cell performance. In the case of removing the defect states of the Sb2Se3 layer, the conversion efficiency of the Sb2Se3 solar cell with a thickness of 0.6 μm is significantly increased from 7.87% to 12.15%. Further increasing the thickness of the solar cell to 3 μm, the conversion efficiency can be as high as 16.55% (Jsc=34.88 mA/cm2, Voc=0.59 V, FF=80.40%). The simulation results show that the Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells can obtain excellent performance with simple device structure and have many potential applications.
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Keywords:
- antimony selenide /
- electron transport layer /
- thin film solar cell /
- wx-AMPS
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[1] Lee T D, Ebong A U 2017 Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 70 1286
[2] Bosio A, Rosa G, Romeo N 2018 Sol. Energy DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.01.018
[3] Bermudez V 2017 Sol. Energy 146 85
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[5] Chen C, Li W, Zhou Y, Chen C, Luo M, Liu X, Zeng K, Yang B, Zhang C, Han J, Tang J 2015 Appl. Phys. Lett. 107 043905
[6] Zhou Y, Leng M, Xia Z, Zhong J, Song H, Liu X, Yang B, Zhang J, Chen J, Zhou K, Han J, Cheng Y, Tang J 2014 Adv. Energy Mater. 4 1301846
[7] Choi Y C, Mandal T N, Yang W S, Lee Y H, Im S H, Noh J H, Seok S 2014 Angew. Chem. 126 1353
[8] Yuan C, Zhang L, Liu W, Zhu C 2016 Sol. Energy 137 256
[9] Liang G X, Zheng Z H, Fan P, Luo J T, Hu J G, Zhang X H, Ma H L, Fan B, Luo Z K, Zhang D P 2018 Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 174 263
[10] Zhao B, Wan Z, Luo J, Han F, Malik H A, Jia C, Liu X, Wang R 2018 Appl. Surf. Sci. 450 228
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[16] Lu S, Zhao Y, Chen C, Zhou Y, Li D, Li K, Chen W, Wen X, Wang C, Kondrotas R, Lowe N, Tang J 2018 Adv. Electron. Mater. 4 1700329
[17] Patrick C E, Giustino F 2011 Adv. Funct. Mater. 21 4663
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[19] Liu Y, Sun Y, Rockett A 2012 Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 98 124
[20] Yaşar S, Kahraman S, Çetinkaya S, Apaydin S, Bilican I, Uluer I 2016 Optik 127 8827
[21] Gloeckler M, Fahrenbruch A L, Sites J R 2003 Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Osaka, Japan, May 11-18, 2003 p491
[22] Chen C, Bobela D C, Yang Y, Lu S, Zeng K, Ge C, Yang B, Gao L, Zhao Y, Beard M C, Tang J 2017 Front. Optoelectron. 10 18
[23] Zhang L, Li Y, Li C, Chen Q, Zhen Z, Jiang X, Zhong M, Zhang F, Zhu H 2017 ACS Nano 11 12753
[24] Lin L, Jiang L, Qiu Y, Fan B 2018 J. Phys. Chem. Solids 122 19
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