Issue 3, 2013
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Energy & Environmental Science

Improved efficiency of smooth and aligned single walled carbon nanotube/silicon hybrid solar cells†

Xiaokai Li,a   Yeonwoong Jung,b   Kelsey Sakimoto,a   Teng-Hooi Goh,a   Mark A. Reedbc  and  André D. Taylor*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
E-mail: andre.taylor@yale.edu

b Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

c Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Abstract

Smooth and aligned single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) thin films with improved optoelectronic performance are fabricated using a superacid slide casting method. Deposition of as made SWNT thin film on silicon (Si) together with post treatments result in SWNT/Si hybrid solar cells with unprecedented high fill factor of 73.8%, low ideality factor of 1.08 as well as overall dry cell power conversion efficiency of 11.5%.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2EE23716D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Oct 2012
Accepted
20 Dec 2012
First published
20 Dec 2012

Energy Environ. Sci., 2013,6, 879-887

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Improved efficiency of smooth and aligned single walled carbon nanotube/silicon hybrid solar cells

X. Li, Y. Jung, K. Sakimoto, T. Goh, M. A. Reed and A. D. Taylor, Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 879 DOI: 10.1039/C2EE23716D

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