Graded doping for enhanced colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics.

Ning, Zhijun; Zhitomirsky, David; Adinolfi, Valerio; Sutherland, Brandon; Xu, Jixian; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Maraghechi, Pouya; Lan, Xinzheng et al. · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A novel approach to improving all-inorganic colloidal quantum dot (CQD) homojunction solar cells by engineering the doping spatial profile to produce a doping gradient within the n-type absorber is presented. The doping gradient greatly improves carrier collection and enhances the voltages attainable by the device, leading to a 1 power point power conversion efficiency (PCE) improvement over previous inorganic CQD solar cells.