Issue 43, 2011
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Large-scale preparation of highly conductive three dimensional graphene and its applications in CdTe solar cells†

Hui Bi,a   Fuqiang Huang,*a   Jun Liang,a   Yufeng Tang,a   Xujie Lü,a   Xiaoming Xieb  and  Mianheng Jiangb  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure and CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
E-mail: huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn
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Tel: +86 21 52411620

b State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Abstract

High-yield three dimensional (3D) graphene networks were prepared on Ni foams by ambient pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD). The layer number of graphene can be tuned by changing the gas flow ratio and growth time. The assembled films from the vacuum filtration of the 3D graphene possessed excellent electrical transport properties (Rs ∼ 0.45 Ω/sq, σ ∼ 600 S cm−1), superior to the reported graphene and carbon nanotube films. Highly conductive films as back electrodes of CdTe solar cells significantly improved the photovoltaic efficiency (9.1%).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM13418C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Jul 2011
Accepted
16 Aug 2011
First published
23 Sep 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 17366-17370

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Large-scale preparation of highly conductive three dimensional graphene and its applications in CdTe solar cells

H. Bi, F. Huang, J. Liang, Y. Tang, X. Lü, X. Xie and M. Jiang, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 17366 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM13418C

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