journal article·2025-03Open access

Homogeneously Blended Donor and Acceptor AgBiS2 Nanocrystal Inks Enable High‐Performance Eco‐Friendly Solar Cells with Enhanced Carrier Diffusion Length

Hae Jeong Kim, Jin Young Park, Ye‐Jin Choi, Soo‐Kwan Kim, Taeyeong Yong, Wonjong Lee, Gayoung Seo, Eon Ji Lee, Seongmin Choi, Hyung Ryul You, Won‐Woo Park, Soojin Yoon, Wook Hyun Kim, Jongchul Lim, Younghoon Kim, Oh‐Hoon Kwon, Jongmin Choi

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 15· Issue 12

Abstract

Abstract Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have garnered significant attention as promising photovoltaic materials due to their tunable optoelectronic properties enabled by surface chemistry. Among them, AgBiS2 NCs stand out as an attractive candidate for solar cell applications due to their environmentally friendly composition, high absorption coefficients, and low‐temperature processability. However, AgBiS2 NC photovoltaics generally exhibit lower power conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to other NC‐based devices, primarily due to numerous surface traps that serve as recombination sites, leading to a short diffusion length for free carriers. To address this challenge, this work develops donor and acceptor blended (D/A) AgBiS2 films. Through ligand modulation, this work formulates acceptor and donor AgBiS2 NC inks with suitable electrical band alignment for charge separation, while ensuring that they are fully miscible in the same solvent. This enabled the fabrication of high‐quality, thickness‐controllable D/A‐blended junction films. This work finds that this approach effectively facilitates carrier separation, leading to an enhanced carrier lifetime and diffusion length. As a result, using this approach, this work achieves AgBiS2 films that are twice as thick in solar cell applications compared to conventional devices, leading to improvements in current density and a solar cell PCE of 8.26%.
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OpenAlex topics: Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties · Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films · Perovskite Materials and Applications

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Affiliations

Department of Energy Science and Engineering Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Daegu 42988 Republic of Korea

Department of Chemistry College of Natural Sciences Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) Ulsan 44919 Republic of Korea

Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology Chungnam National University Daejeon 34134 Republic of Korea

Division of Energy & Environmental Technology Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Daegu 42988 Republic of Korea

Department of Chemistry Kookmin University Seoul 02707 Republic of Korea

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea · Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea · National Research Foundation

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