Ultra-stable all-inorganic silver bismuth sulfide colloidal nanocrystal photovoltaics using pin type architecture

Jae Taek Oh; Sung Yong Bae; Jonghee Yang; Su Ryong Ha; Hochan Song; Cheong Beom Lee; Sanchari Shome; Swarup Biswas; Hyun Mo Lee; You Hyun Seo; Seok In Na; Jin Seong Park; Whikun Yi; Seungjin Lee; Koen Bertens; Bo Ram Lee; Edward H. Sargent; Hyeok Kim; Younghoon Kim; Hyosung Choi

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230585

Ultra-stable all-inorganic silver bismuth sulfide colloidal nanocrystal photovoltaics using pin type architecture

Jae Taek Oh, Sung Yong Bae, Jonghee Yang, Su Ryong Ha, Hochan Song, Cheong Beom Lee, Sanchari Shome, Swarup Biswas, Hyun Mo Lee, You Hyun Seo, Seok In Na, Jin Seong Park, Whikun Yi, Seungjin Lee, Koen Bertens, Bo Ram Lee, Edward H. Sargent, Hyeok Kim^*, Younghoon Kim, Hyosung Choi

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Silver bismuth sulfide (AgBiS₂) colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) have emerged as an environmentally friendly light absorber for next-generation photovoltaics. Classical AgBiS₂ NC photovoltaics with nip-architecture have been mandated to use a combination of polymer and molybdenum oxide as a hole transport layer (HTL), which are vulnerable to oxygen, heat and water. In this work, we develop all-inorganic AgBiS₂ NC photovoltaics with pin-architecture, serving a nickel oxide (NiO) as HTL. We also employ a cascade-energy-level alignment by introducing 3-mercaptopropionic acid-treated AgBiS₂ NC layer, enabling enhanced hole collection with minimized interfacial recombination. As a result, the pin type AgBiS₂ NC photovoltaics demonstrate a power conversion efficiency of 5.59% as well as excellent stability even under extreme conditions such as heat and water exposures, attributed to superior chemical robustness of the inorganic HTL. This work is the first report on AgBiS₂ NC device with all-inorganic components and achieves the highest device efficiency in pin type AgBiS₂ NC photovoltaics.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	230585
Journal	Journal of Power Sources
Volume	514
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230585
State	Published - Dec 1 2021

Funding

This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea ( NRF-2018R1C1B6001015 ). This work was also funded by National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (Grants NRF-2020R1A4A1018163 ) under the program of Basic Research Laboratory (BRL).

Keywords

All-inorganic photovoltaics
Device stability
Environmental-friendly
Ligand engineering
Silver bismuth sulfide

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Oh, J. T., Bae, S. Y., Yang, J., Ha, S. R., Song, H., Lee, C. B., Shome, S., Biswas, S., Lee, H. M., Seo, Y. H., Na, S. I., Park, J. S., Yi, W., Lee, S., Bertens, K., Lee, B. R., Sargent, E. H., Kim, H., Kim, Y., & Choi, H. (2021). Ultra-stable all-inorganic silver bismuth sulfide colloidal nanocrystal photovoltaics using pin type architecture. Journal of Power Sources, 514, Article 230585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230585

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