Additive engineering for Sb<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub> indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%

Xiao Chen; Xiaoxuan Shu; Jiacheng Zhou; Lei Wan; Peng Xiao; Yuchen Fu; Junzhi Ye; Yi-Teng Huang; Bin Yan; Dingjiang Xue; Tao Chen; Jiejie Chen; Robert L. Z. Hoye; Ru Zhou

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Additive engineering for Sb₂S₃ indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%

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- Additive engineering for Sb₂S₃ indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 12, Pages: 3015-3029(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, PR China
  2.Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230009, PR China
  3.Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
  4.Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK
  5.Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
- Author bio：
  
  Jiejie Chen (chenjiej@ustc.edu.cn)
  Robert L. Z. Hoye (robert.hoye@chem.ox.ac.uk)
  Ru Zhou (zhouru@hfut.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01620-0
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- Published：31 December 2024，
  
  Published Online：02 October 2024，
  
  Received：22 April 2024，
  
  Revised：25 August 2024，
  
  Accepted：01 September 2024
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Chen, X. et al. Additive engineering for Sb₂S₃ indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 3015-3029 (2024).
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Chen, X. et al. Additive engineering for Sb₂S₃ indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 3015-3029 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01620-0.

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Abstract

Indoor photovoltaics (IPVs) have attracted increasing attention for sustainably powering Internet of Things (IoT) electronics. Sb

is a promising IPV candidate material with a bandgap of ~1.75 eV

which is near the optimal value for indoor energy harvesting. However

the performance of Sb

solar cells is limited by nonradiative recombination

which is dependent on the quality of the absorber films. Additive engineering is an effective strategy to fine tune the properties of solution-processed films. This work shows that the addition of monoethanolamine (MEA) into the precursor solution allows the nucleatio

n and growth of Sb

films to be controlled

enabling the deposition of high-quality Sb

absorbers with reduced grain boundary density

optimized band positions

and increased carrier concentration. Complemented with computations

it is revealed that the incorporation of MEA leads to a more efficient and energetically favorable deposition for enhanced heterogeneous nucleation on the substrate

which increases the grain size and accelerates the deposition rate of Sb

films. Due to suppressed carrier recombination and improved charge-carrier transport in Sb

absorber films

the MEA-modulated Sb

solar cell yields a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.22% under AM1.5 G illumination

and an IPV PCE of 17.55% under 1000 lux white light emitting diode (WLED) illumination

which is the highest yet reported for Sb

IPVs. Furthermore

we construct high performance large-area Sb

IPV minimodules to power IoT wireless sensors

and realize the long-term continuous recording of environmental parameters under WLED illumination in an office. This work highlights the great prospect of Sb

photovoltaics for indoor energy harvesting.

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Additive engineering for Sb2S3 indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%

DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01620-0

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Additive engineering for Sb₂S₃ indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%