KMS Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, CAS
A two-dimensional GeSe/SnSe heterostructure for high performance thin-film solar cells | |
Mao, Yuliang1; Xu, Congsheng1; Yuan, Jianmei2; Zhao, Hongquan3 | |
2019-05-14 | |
摘要 | Based on the first-principles calculations, we demonstrated that a GeSe/SnSe heterostructure has type-II band alignment and a direct band gap, which can effectively prevent the recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Moreover, the GeSe/SnSe heterostructure also exhibits strong optical absorption intensity, which can reach the order of 10(5) cm(-1). Our predicted photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE) for the GeSe/SnSe heterostructure reaches 21.47%. We also found that the hole carrier mobility of the GeSe/SnSe heterostructure along the x direction has been significantly improved to 6.42 x 10(4) cm(2) V-1 s(-1), which is higher than that of black phosphorus (1 x 10(4) cm(2) V-1 s(-1)). By applying a vertical external electric field, we found that the band gap and band offset of the GeSe/SnSe heterojunction can be effectively tuned. The revealed type-II band alignment, strong optical absorption, superior PCE and superior hole carrier mobility of the GeSe/SnSe heterostructure imply that this new proposed material has broad application prospects in solar cells. |
DOI | 10.1039/c9ta01219b |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A |
ISSN | 2050-7488 |
卷号 | 7期号:18页码:11265-11271 |
收录类别 | SCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000472225200043 |
语种 | 英语 |