Tandem colloidal quantum dot solar cells employing a graded recombination layer外文电子书籍.pdfVIP

LETTERS PUBLISHED ONLINE: 26 JUNE 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2011.123 Tandem colloidal quantum dot solar cells employing a graded recombination layer 1† 1† 1 1,2 1 1 Xihua Wang , Ghada I. Koleilat , Jiang Tang , Huan Liu , Illan J. Kramer , Ratan Debnath , 1 1 1 1 Lukasz Brzozowski , D. Aaron R. Barkhouse , Larissa Levina , Sjoerd Hoogland and Edward H. Sargent1 * Tuning of the electronic bandgap in colloidal quantum dots layers19–22. In the tunnel junction, degenerately doped pþþ and (CQDs) by changing their size enables the spectral response nþþ materials produce a thin junction in which the valence band of CQD-based photodetectors1–5 and photovoltaic6–12 devices on the p-side is energetically aligned with the conduction band on to be tailored. Multi-junction solar cells made from a combi- the n-side, and the depletion region is sufficiently thin that carriers nation of CQDs of differing sizes and thus bandgaps are a can tunnel from one side to the other. CQD solids (or materials of promising means by which to increase the energy harvested similar bandgap and compatible with CQD processing) that achieve from the Sun’s broad spectrum. Here, we report the first CQD the sequential combination of transparent pþþ followed by nþþ tandem solar cells using the size-effect tuning of a s