Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells
Electrochemically deposited Cu2O solar cells are receiving growing attention owing to a recent doubling in efficiency. This was enabled by the controlled chemical environment used in depositing doped ZnO layers by atomic layer deposition, which is not well suited to large-scale industrial production...
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| author | Robert L. Z. Hoye Riley E. Brandt Yulia Ievskaya Shane Heffernan Kevin P. Musselman Tonio Buonassisi Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll |
| author_facet | Robert L. Z. Hoye Riley E. Brandt Yulia Ievskaya Shane Heffernan Kevin P. Musselman Tonio Buonassisi Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll |
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| description | Electrochemically deposited Cu2O solar cells are receiving growing attention owing to a recent doubling in efficiency. This was enabled by the controlled chemical environment used in depositing doped ZnO layers by atomic layer deposition, which is not well suited to large-scale industrial production. While open air fabrication with atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition overcomes this limitation, we find that this approach is limited by an inability to remove the detrimental CuO layer that forms on the Cu2O surface. Herein, we propose strategies for achieving efficiencies in atmospherically processed cells that are equivalent to the high values achieved in vacuum processed cells. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-231fb43eddd34b83a5bb1f160457629c2022-12-21T19:55:25ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Materials2166-532X2015-02-0132020901020901-410.1063/1.4913442010502APMPerspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cellsRobert L. Z. Hoye0Riley E. Brandt1Yulia Ievskaya2Shane Heffernan3Kevin P. Musselman4Tonio Buonassisi5Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll6Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United KingdomMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USADepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United KingdomElectrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United KingdomDepartment of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United KingdomMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USADepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United KingdomElectrochemically deposited Cu2O solar cells are receiving growing attention owing to a recent doubling in efficiency. This was enabled by the controlled chemical environment used in depositing doped ZnO layers by atomic layer deposition, which is not well suited to large-scale industrial production. While open air fabrication with atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition overcomes this limitation, we find that this approach is limited by an inability to remove the detrimental CuO layer that forms on the Cu2O surface. Herein, we propose strategies for achieving efficiencies in atmospherically processed cells that are equivalent to the high values achieved in vacuum processed cells.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4913442 |
| spellingShingle | Robert L. Z. Hoye Riley E. Brandt Yulia Ievskaya Shane Heffernan Kevin P. Musselman Tonio Buonassisi Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells APL Materials |
| title | Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| title_full | Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| title_fullStr | Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| title_short | Perspective: Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| title_sort | perspective maintaining surface phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4913442 |
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