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Vol.5 , No. 2, Publication Date: Feb. 27, 2018, Page: 30-34
. In addition, simulation results in this work demonstrated that the shell effectively could passivate the surface traps on PbS, resulting in highly improved in the short-circuit current density. Therefore, presented approach in present simulation provides a new method for simulation of high performance core-shell solar cells.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/916.jpg)
| [1] | Masood Mehrabian, Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran. |
| [2] | Elham Mirzapoor, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran. |
| [3] | Mohammadreza Akbarpour, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran. |
A numerical simulation is performed to characterize the power conversion efficiency of a PbS Quantum Dot sensitized solar cell and a solar cell containing of type-II semiconductor core shell layer. Simulation results showed much higher efficiency for a core-shell solar cell as compared to PbS QD sensitized solar cells, reaching an overall efficiency of 3.5% under simulated solar illumination (AM1.5, 100 mW•cm-2). In addition, simulation results in this work demonstrated that the shell effectively could passivate the surface traps on PbS, resulting in highly improved in the short-circuit current density. Therefore, presented approach in present simulation provides a new method for simulation of high performance core-shell solar cells.
Keywords
PbS QD, Core Shell Type II, Photovoltaic, Simulation
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