Electrical and optical characterization of sprayed In2S3 thin films as an electron transporting layer in high efficient perovskite solar cells

Hashemi, Maryam; Minbashi, Mehran; Ghorashi, Seyed Mohammad Bagher; Ghobadi, Arash; Ehsani, M.H.; Heidariramsheh, Maryam; Hajjiah, Ali

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2020.12.046

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“…The interfaces of the several ETL layers in PSC's performance are summarized in Table 1. [86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103]…”

Section: Etl/perovskite Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Effective Approaches for Perovskite Solar Cells: Recent Advances and Perspectives

Ramarajan

Mallik

Zinigrad

2023

Physica Status Solidi (a)

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The world must move away from fossil-fuel usage, which helps mitigate climate change and promotes eco-friendly renewable energies. [1] Climate agreements made in Paris are the key to achieving this goal. [2] To achieve this energy revolution, it is essential to control the levels of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. [2] It is also important to monitor the air quality because air pollution can cause serious health problems. Mainly, it is caused by polluting energy sources, for example, fossil-fuel combustion (coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shales, tar sands, and heavy oils), and chemical-waste emissions. [1] Addressing those issues with renewable energy will be essential if policymakers are to limit net-zero CO 2 emissions with a universal temperature decrement of up to 1.5 °C by 2050. [1] Using renewable energy sources can control air pollution and provide better prosperity to climate change. [3,4] Energy harvesting, energy access, and energy storage are essential processes for renewables-based energy technologies, which play an important role in energy transition at the forefront of national and global concerns. [2] Fortunately, renewable energies are a facile and cost-effective technology for electricity production. [5] The nation is strongly dependent on imported fossil fuels suffering many pollution issues. Renewable energy can offer a facile and cost-effective energy technology from diverse energy sources, creating more flexibility in the system. It is also reported that the average cost of electricity production of all commercially available renewable energy sources decreased. [2,4] For example, remarkable changes have occurred in the cost of electricity production by the solar photovoltaic (PV) technology from 2010 to 2018, declining by 77%. [1,2] Rapid decreases in the cost of renewable energy are more important to achieve this goal. Among all renewable energy technology options, faster growth of PV technology alone can effectively decrease the CO 2 emission of 4.9 Gt (gigatonnes) in 2050. [2,4] Solar PV technology is expected to lead the second-major power production energy source by 2050, just behind hydroelectric and wind power. [2,4] Total PV technology usage has been expected to be almost six times higher than the present scenario. The total global energy from 480 GW in 2018 to 2 840 GW by 2030 and to 8 519 GW by 2050, an improvement of 18 times will be achieved. [1,2,4] Interestingly, solar-cell PV technology is one of the fastestgrowing energy of renewable energy sources. [6] In solar PV technology, efficiency, cost, and lifetime (golden triangle) are more concern. Several factors need to be fine-tuned to get highly efficient solar PV technology. [7] From a technical perspective, highly efficient solar cells reduce the number of modules that need to be installed in a panel, the required land area, and the length of cables. From a marketing point of view, the solar industry can provide cost-effective and long-term stable devices. [3,4] The further development of solar-cell technology mostly depen...

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“…The interfaces of the several ETL layers in PSC's performance are summarized in Table 1. [86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103]…”

Section: Etl/perovskite Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Effective Approaches for Perovskite Solar Cells: Recent Advances and Perspectives

Ramarajan

Mallik

Zinigrad

2023

Physica Status Solidi (a)

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“…The position of conduction band edge is relatively negative which makes it feasible to construct type II hetero-structures for photo anode application as In2S3 is always n-type. [15] The synthesis of In2S3 powder and thin films are reported with different precursors using techniques like chemical vapour deposition (16), nebulizer spray pyrolysis route (17), chemical spray pyrolysis (18,19), chemical bath deposition (20)(21)(22), sulfurization assisted thermal evaporation method (23) etc. These methods include organic solvents, lots of reagents, high temperature, state-ofthe-art instrumentation etc.…”

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Photocatalytic dilapidation of organic pollutant SRB in water by mesoporous In 2 S 3

Chandran

Abraham

Jayakrishnan

2023

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Sulforhodamine B (C27H30N2O7S2) (SRB) is an amino-xanthene class, fluorescent dye, commonly used for in-vitro cytotoxicity monitoring and for the detection of drug-target interaction especially in the case of anti-cancer drugs. It does not degrade under normal conditions and remains in water as such. In accordance with the principles of green chemistry we have synthesized nano-structured Indium sulphide which demonstrates efficacy in photocatalytic degradation of this organic pollutant. The reusability of the photo catalyst was tested and it was found to degrade exponentially with recycling. The optimum SRB dye load on the photo catalyst was identified to be 0.28 M/gm for which a decay rate constant of ~ 4.58 x 10− 3 min− 1 was obtained. Beyond a critical SRB dye load, the photo catalysis involved direct rupture of the chromophore without an initial N-demethylation step.

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“…The employment of the earlier mentioned methods led to an apparent improvement of physical properties [11]. In recent years, among the fierce research focus to finding the best energyefficiency compromise among next-generation solar cells, Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) have emerged as one of the most prominent candidates [12]. Moreover, the use of In2S3 as an electron transport layer (ETL) and photosensitizer in (PSCs) has gained much attention in the field of solar energy research [13].…”

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The Synthesis and the effect of Cu on optoelectronic qualities of β-In2S3 as a window layer for CIGS thin film solar cells

Alamoudi¹,

Timoumi

2022

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In this paper, the vacuum thermal evaporation technique was used to investigate β-In2S3 doped with copper (Cu) as window layer thin film for solar cells. For various Cu doping levels, the characteristics of the thin films were studied utilizing structural, morphological, and optical characterization techniques, as well as dielectric testing. The research included X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Infrared analysis (FTIR), XPS, Ellipsometry and UV-NIR spectroscopy. The measurements demonstrated that the real and imaginary isolation constants were over the wavelength range and successfully estimated the Urbach energy (Eu) and band gap energy. Moreover, employing the Wemple-Didomenico model helped uncover the Cauchy coefficients’ refractive index and the dispersion and oscillation energies. Therefore, the results presented in this paper show that the use of Cu-In2S3 for perovskite cells offers a high-efficiency alternative in the solar energy field.

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Electrical and optical characterization of sprayed In2S3 thin films as an electron transporting layer in high efficient perovskite solar cells

Cited by 25 publications

References 84 publications

Effective Approaches for Perovskite Solar Cells: Recent Advances and Perspectives

Effective Approaches for Perovskite Solar Cells: Recent Advances and Perspectives

Photocatalytic dilapidation of organic pollutant SRB in water by mesoporous In 2 S 3

The Synthesis and the effect of Cu on optoelectronic qualities of β-In2S3 as a window layer for CIGS thin film solar cells

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