Charge trapping dynamics in pbs colloidal quantum dot photovoltaic devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 8771-8779

  Bakulin, Artem A ^a   Neutzner, Stefanie ^a   Bakker, Huib J ^a   Ottaviani, Laurent ^b   Barakel, Damien ^b   Chen, Zhuoying ^c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

charge transport; nanodevices; photovoltaics; quantum dots; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; NANO-DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PBS COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHARGE TRAPPING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84886995276     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403190s     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Sargent, E. H. Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells Nat. Photonics 2012, 6, 133-135
2. Hines, M. A.; Scholes, G. D. Colloidal PbS Nanocrystals with Size-Tunable Near-Infrared Emission: Observation of Post-Synthesis Self-Narrowing of the Particle Size Distribution Adv. Mater. 2003, 15, 1844-1849
3. Peng, X.; Manna, L.; Yang, W.; Wickham, J.; Scher, E.; Kadavanich, A.; Alivisatos, A. P. Shape Control of CdSe Nanocrystals Nature 2000, 404, 59-61
4. Murray, C. B.; Norris, D. J.; Bawendi, M. G. Synthesis and Characterization of Nearly Monodisperse Cde (E = S, Se, Te) Semiconductor Nanocrystallites J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 8706-8715
5. Talapin, D. V.; Lee, J.-S.; Kovalenko, M. V.; Shevchenko, E. V. Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications Chem. Rev. 2009, 110, 389-458
6. Szendrei, K.; Gomulya, W.; Yarema, M.; Heiss, W.; Loi, M. A. PbS Nanocrystal Solar Cells with High Efficiency and Fill Factor Appl. Phys. Lett. 2010, 97, 203501-1-203501-3
7. Rath, A. K.; Bernechea, M.; Martinez, L.; de Arquer, F. P. G.; Osmond, J.; Konstantatos, G. Solution-Processed Inorganic Bulk Nano-Heterojunctions and their Application to Solar Cells Nat. Photonics 2012, 6, 529-534
8. Jeong, K. S.; Tang, J.; Liu, H.; Kim, J.; Schaefer, A. W.; Kemp, K.; Levina, L.; Wang, X.; Hoogland, S.; Debnath, R. Enhanced Mobility-Lifetime Products in PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics ACS Nano 2012, 6, 89-99
9. Nozik, A. J.; Beard, M. C.; Luther, J. M.; Law, M.; Ellingson, R. J.; Johnson, J. C. Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays and Applications of Multiple Exciton Generation to Third-Generation Photovoltaic Solar Cells Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6873-6890
10. Ehrler, B.; Walker, B. J.; Böhm, M. L.; Wilson, M. W. B.; Vaynzof, Y.; Friend, R. H.; Greenham, N. C. In Situ Measurement of Exciton Energy in Hybrid Singlet-Fission Solar Cells Nat. Commun. 2012, 3, 1019-1-1019-6
11. Lee, J.-S.; Kovalenko, M. V.; Huang, J.; Chung, D. S.; Talapin, D. V. Band-Like Transport, High Electron Mobility and High Photoconductivity in All-Inorganic Nanocrystal Arrays Nat. Nanotechnol. 2011, 6, 348-352
12. Ip, A. H.; Thon, S. M.; Hoogland, S.; Voznyy, O.; Zhitomirsky, D.; Debnath, R.; Levina, L.; Rollny, L. R.; Carey, G. H.; Fischer, A. Hybrid Passivated Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids Nat. Nanotechnol. 2012, 7, 577-582
13. Lan, X.; Bai, J.; Masala, S.; Thon, S. M.; Ren, Y.; Kramer, I. J.; Hoogland, S.; Simchi, A.; Koleilat, G. I.; Paz-Soldan, D. Self-Assembled, Nanowire Network Electrodes for Depleted Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 1769-1773
14. Maraghechi, P.; Labelle, A. J.; Kirmani, A. R.; Lan, X.; Adachi, M. M.; Thon, S. M.; Hoogland, S.; Lee, A.; Ning, Z.; Fischer, A. The Donor-Supply Electrode Enhances Performance in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells ACS Nano 2013, 7, 6111-6116
15. Kramer, I. J.; Sargent, E. H. Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics: A Path Forward ACS Nano 2011, 5, 8506-8514
16. ten Cate, S.; Schins, J. M.; Siebbeles, L. D. A. Origin of Low Sensitizing Efficiency of Quantum Dots in Organic Solar Cells ACS Nano 2012, 6, 8983-8988
17. Tang, J.; Kemp, K. W.; Hoogland, S.; Jeong, K. S.; Liu, H.; Levina, L.; Furukawa, M.; Wang, X.; Debnath, R.; Cha, D. Colloidal-Quantum-Dot Photovoltaics Using Atomic-Ligand Passivation Nat. Mater. 2011, 10, 765-771
18. Liu, H.; Zhitomirsky, D.; Hoogland, S.; Tang, J.; Kramer, I. J.; Ning, Z.; Sargent, E. H. Systematic Optimization of Quantum Junction Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 101, 151112-151113
19. Malicki, M.; Knowles, K. E.; Weiss, E. A. Gating of Hole Transfer from Photoexcited PbS Quantum Dots to Aminoferrocene by the Ligand Shell of the Dots Chem. Commun. (Cambridge, U.K.) 2013, 49, 4400-4402
20. Tisdale, W. A.; Williams, K. J.; Timp, B. A.; Norris, D. J.; Aydil, E. S.; Zhu, X.-Y. Hot-Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals Science 2010, 328, 1543-1547
21. De Geyter, B.; Houtepen, A. J.; Carrillo, S.; Geiregat, P.; Gao, Y.; ten Cate, S.; Schins, J. M.; Van Thourhout, D.; Delerue, C.; Siebbeles, L. D. A. Broadband and Picosecond Intraband Absorption in Lead-Based Colloidal Quantum Dots ACS Nano 2012, 6, 6067-6074
22. Guyot-Sionnest, P.; Shim, M.; Matranga, C.; Hines, M. Intraband Relaxation in CdSe Quantum Dots Phys. Rev. B 1999, 60, R2181-R2184
23. Klimov, V. I.; Mikhailovsky, A. A.; McBranch, D. W.; Leatherdale, C. A.; Bawendi, M. G. Mechanisms for Intraband Energy Relaxation in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: The Role of Electron-Hole Interactions Phys. Rev. B 2000, 61, R13349-R13352
24. Ginger, D. S.; Dhoot, A. S.; Finlayson, C. E.; Greenham, N. C. Long-Lived Quantum-Confined Infrared Transitions in CdSe Nanocrystals Appl. Phys. Lett. 2000, 77, 2816-2818
25. Shim, M.; Shilov, S. V.; Braiman, M. S.; Guyot-Sionnest, P. Long-Lived Delocalized Electron States in Quantum Dots: A Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Study J. Phys. Chem. B 2000, 104, 1494-1496
26. Guyot-Sionnest, P.; Wehrenberg, B.; Yu, D. Intraband Relaxation in CdSe Nanocrystals and the Strong Influence of the Surface Ligands J. Chem. Phys. 2005, 123, 074709-074707
27. Zhang, J.; Jiang, X. Confinement-Dependent Below-Gap State in PbS Quantum Dot Films Probed by Continuous-Wave Photoinduced Absorption J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 9557-9560
28. 2 Nanocrystalline Films Nano Lett. 2011, 12, 303-309
29. 2 Nanoparticles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 4136-4137
30. Virgili, T.; López, I. S.; Vercelli, B.; Angella, G.; Zotti, G.; Cabanillas-Gonzalez, J.; Granados, D.; Luer, L.; Wannemacher, R.; Tassone, F. Spectroscopic Signature of Trap States in Assembled CdSe Nanocrystal Hybrid Films J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 16259-16263
31. Talgorn, E.; Gao, Y.; Aerts, M.; Kunneman, L. T.; Schins, J. M.; Savenije, T. J.; van HuisMarijn, A.; van der ZantHerre, S. J.; Houtepen, A. J.; SiebbelesLaurens, D. A. Unity Quantum Yield of Photogenerated Charges and Band-Like Transport in Quantum-Dot Solids Nat. Nanotechnol. 2011, 6, 733-739
32. Pattantyus-Abraham, A. G.; Kramer, I. J.; Barkhouse, A. R.; Wang, X.; Konstantatos, G.; Debnath, R.; Levina, L.; Raabe, I.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M. Depleted-Heterojunction Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells ACS Nano 2010, 4, 3374-3380
33. 2 Heterojunction Solar Cells ACS Nano 2012, 6, 3092-3099
34. Barkhouse, D. A. R.; Debnath, R.; Kramer, I. J.; Zhitomirsky, D.; Pattantyus-Abraham, A. G.; Levina, L.; Etgar, L.; Grätzel, M.; Sargent, E. H. Depleted Bulk Heterojunction Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 3134-3138
35. MoO3 Interfacial Layer Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 2955-2961
36. Semonin, O. E.; Luther, J. M.; Choi, S.; Chen, H.-Y.; Gao, J.; Nozik, A. J.; Beard, M. C. Peak External Photocurrent Quantum Efficiency Exceeding 100% via MEG in a Quantum Dot Solar Cell Science 2011, 334, 1530-1533
37. Schaller, R. D.; Sykora, M.; Pietryga, J. M.; Klimov, V. I. Seven Excitons at a Cost of One: Redefining the Limits for Conversion Efficiency of Photons into Charge Carriers Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 424-429
38. Ellingson, R. J.; Beard, M. C.; Johnson, J. C.; Yu, P.; Micic, O. I.; Nozik, A. J.; Shabaev, A.; Efros, A. L. Highly Efficient Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal PbSe and PbS Quantum Dots Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 865-871
39. Pijpers, J. J. H.; Ulbricht, R.; Tielrooij, K. J.; Osherov, A.; Golan, Y.; Delerue, C.; Allan, G.; Bonn, M. Assessment of Carrier-Multiplication Efficiency in Bulk PbSe and PbS Nat. Phys. 2009, 5, 811-814
40. Müller, J. G.; Lupton, J. M.; Feldmann, J.; Lemmer, U.; Scharber, M. C.; Sariciftci, N. S.; Brabec, C. J.; Scherf, U. Ultrafast Dynamics of Charge Carrier Photogeneration and Geminate Recombination in Conjugated Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells Phys. Rev. B 2005, 72, 195208-1-195208-10
41. Bakulin, A. A.; Rao, A.; Pavelyev, V. G.; van Loosdrecht, P. H. M.; Pshenichnikov, M. S.; Niedzialek, D.; Cornil, J.; Beljonne, D.; Friend, R. H. The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors Science 2012, 335, 1340-1344
42. Bakulin, A. A.; Dimitrov, S. D.; Rao, A.; Chow, P. C.; Nielsen, C. B.; Schroeder, B. C.; McCulloch, I.; Bakker, H. J.; Durrant, J. R.; Friend, R. H. Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 209-215
43. Li, Z.; Gao, F.; Greenham, N. C.; McNeill, C. R. Comparison of the Operation of Polymer/Fullerene, Polymer/Polymer, and Polymer/Nanocrystal Solar Cells: A Transient Photocurrent and Photovoltage Study Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 1419-1431
44. Hyun, B.-R.; Zhong, Y.-W.; Bartnik, A. C.; Sun, L.; Abruña, H. D.; Wise, F. W.; Goodreau, J. D.; Matthews, J. R.; Leslie, T. M.; Borrelli, N. F. Electron Injection from Colloidal PbS Quantum Dots into Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles ACS Nano 2008, 2, 2206-2212
45. Clarke, T. M.; Durrant, J. R. Charge Photogeneration in Organic Solar Cells Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6736-6767
46. Deibel, C.; Strobel, T.; Dyakonov, V. Role of the Charge Transfer State in Organic Donor-Acceptor Solar Cells Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 4097-4111
47. Vandewal, K.; Tvingstedt, K.; Gadisa, A.; Inganas, O.; Manca, J. V. On the Origin of the Open-Circuit Voltage of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells Nat. Mater. 2009, 8, 904-909
48. Banerji, N. Sub-Picosecond Delocalization in the Excited State of Conjugated Homopolymers and Donor-Acceptor Copolymers J. Mater. Chem. C 2013, 1, 3052-3066
49. Dimitrov, S. D.; Bakulin, A. A.; Nielsen, C. B.; Schroeder, B. C.; Du, J.; Bronstein, H.; McCulloch, I.; Friend, R. H.; Durrant, J. R. On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 18189-18192
50. Nayak, P. K.; Narasimhan, K.; Cahen, D. Separating Charges at Organic Interfaces: Effects of Disorder, Hot States and Electric Field J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 1707-1717
51. Herrmann, D.; Niesar, S.; Scharsich, C.; Kohler, A.; Stutzmann, M.; Riedle, E. Role of Structural Order and Excess Energy on Ultrafast Free Charge Generation in Hybrid Polythiophene/Si Photovoltaics Probed in Real Time by Near-Infrared Broadband Transient Absorption J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 18220-18233
52. Grancini, G.; Sai Santosh Kumar, R.; Maiuri, M.; Fang, J.; Huck, W. T. S.; Alcocer, M. J. P.; Lanzani, G.; Cerullo, G.; Petrozza, A.; Snaith, H. J. Panchromatic "Dye-Doped" Polymer Solar Cells: From Femtosecond Energy Relays to Enhanced Photo-Response J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 442-447
53. Nemec, H.; Rochford, J.; Taratula, O.; Galoppini, E.; Kuzel, P.; Polivka, T.; Yartsev, A.; Sundstrom, V. Influence of the Electron-Cation Interaction on Electron Mobility in Dye-Sensitized ZnO and TiO2 Nanocrystals: A Study Using Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 197401-1-197401-4
54. Vaynzof, Y.; Bakulin, A. A.; Gélinas, S.; Friend, R. H. Direct Observation of Photoinduced Bound Charge-Pair States at an Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Interface Phys. Rev. Lett. 2012, 108, 246605-1-246605-5
55. 2 Interface ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 4334-4339
56. Hendry, E.; Koeberg, M.; Pijpers, J.; Bonn, M. Reduction of Carrier Mobility in Semiconductors caused by Charge-Charge Interactions Phys. Rev. B 2007, 75, 233202-1-233202-4
57. Tiwana, P.; Docampo, P.; Johnston, M. B.; Snaith, H. J.; Herz, L. M. Electron Mobility and Injection Dynamics in Mesoporous ZnO, SnO 2, and TiO 2 Films Used in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells ACS Nano 2011, 5, 5158-5166
58. Kamat, P. V. Boosting the Efficiency of Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells through Modulation of Interfacial Charge Transfer Acc. Chem. Res. 2012, 45, 1906-1915
59. Žídek, K.; Zheng, K.; Abdellah, M.; Lenngren, N.; Chábera, P.; Pullerits, T. Ultrafast Dynamics of Multiple Exciton Harvesting in the CdSe-ZnO System: Electron Injection versus Auger Recombination Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 6393-6399
60. Klem, E. J. D.; Levina, L.; Sargent, E. H. PbS Quantum Dot Electroabsorption Modulation across the Extended Communications Band 1200-1700 nm Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 87, 053101-053103
61. Kuwabara, T.; Kawahara, Y.; Yamaguchi, T.; Takahashi, K. Characterization of Inverted-Type Organic Solar Cells with a ZnO Layer as the Electron Collection Electrode by AC Impedance Spectroscopy ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2009, 1, 2107-2110
62. Sun, Y.; Seo, J. H.; Takacs, C. J.; Seifter, J.; Heeger, A. J. Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Integrated with a Low-Temperature-Annealed Sol-Gel-Derived ZnO Film as an Electron Transport Layer Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 1679-1683