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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Xu, Yuanfeng
• Liu, Yifan
• Chen, Ying
• Zhang, Yiming
• Ma, Congcong
• Zhang, Hao
• Sun, Songsong
• Ji, Yanju

Titel

Two-Dimensional Direct Semiconductor Boron Monochalcogenide γ‑BTe: Room-Temperature Single-Bound Exciton and Novel Donor Material in Excitonic Solar Cells

Ist Teil von

• ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020-12, Vol.12 (52), p.58349-58359

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Recently, excitonic solar cells (XSCs) with high photovoltaic performance have raised research interests because of their high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Herein, by using first-principles calculations, we predict that γ-BX (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers are direct semiconductors with the band gaps of 2.94, 2.71, and 1.32 eV, respectively, and maintain semiconduction in the broad strain range of 0% ≤ δ ≤ 5%. The moderate direct band gap, high transport property, dramatically high absorption from visible to the ultraviolet region, and extraordinary excitonic behavior of monolayer γ-BTe, render it promising for next-generation optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. By choosing monolayer GeP2 as a proper acceptor material, the practical upper limit of PCE for the heterobilayers of γ-BTe/GeP2 reaches up to 21.76% (22.95% under strain), comparable to typical heterobilayer solar cells, making it a competitive donor material for photovoltaic device applications.