Optical properties of ZnO/ZnS and ZnO/ZnTe heterostructures for photovoltaic applications |
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Authors: | Schrier Joshua Demchenko Denis O Wang Lin-Wang Alivisatos A Paul |
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Affiliation: | Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. jschrier@lbl.gov |
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Abstract: | Although ZnO and ZnS are abundant, stable, and environmentally benign, their band gap energies (3.44, 3.72 eV, respectively) are too large for optimal photovoltaic efficiency. By using band-corrected pseudopotential density functional theory calculations, we study how the band gap, optical absorption, and carrier localization can be controlled by forming quantum-well-like and nanowire-based heterostructures of ZnO/ZnS and ZnO/ZnTe. In the case of ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanowires, which can be synthesized using existing methods, we obtain a band gap of 2.07 eV, which corresponds to a Shockley-Quiesser efficiency limit of 23%. On the basis of these nanowire results, we propose that ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanowires can be used as photovoltaic devices with organic polymer semiconductors as p-channel contacts. |
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