Low‐Cost Antimony Selenosulfide with Tunable Bandgap for Highly Efficient Solar Cells
Jiabin Dong, Huizhen Liu, Zixiu Cao, Yue Liu, Yuxing Bai, Mohan Chen, Bei Liu, Li Wu, Jingshan Luo, Yi Zhang, Shengzhong Liu
Abstract
Abstract About 10% efficient antimony selenosulfide (Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 ) solar cell is realized by using selenourea as a hydrothermal raw material to prepare absorber layers. However, tailoring the bandgap of hydrothermal‐based Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 film to the ideal bandgap (1.3–1.4 eV) using the selenourea for optimal efficiency is still a challenge. Moreover, the expensive selenourea dramatically increases the fabricating cost. Here, a straightforward one‐step hydrothermal method is developed to prepare high‐quality Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 films using a novel precursor sodium selenosulfate as the selenium source. By tuning the Se/(Se+S) ratio in the hydrothermal precursor solution, a series of high‐quality Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 films with reduced density of deep defect states and tunable bandgap from 1.31 to 1.71 eV is successfully prepared. Consequently, the best efficiency of 10.05% with a high current density of 26.01 mA cm −2 is achieved in 1.35 eV Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 solar cells. Compared with the traditional method using selenourea, the production cost for the Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 devices is reduced by over 80%. In addition, the device exhibits outstanding stability, maintaining more than 93% of the initial power conversion efficiency after 30 days of exposure in the atmosphere without encapsulation. The present work definitely paves a facile and effective way to develop low‐cost and high‐efficiency chalcogenide‐based photovoltaic devices.