Design and Simulation of Efficient SnS-Based Solar Cell Using Spiro-OMeTAD as Hole Transport Layer
Pooja Tiwari,
Maged F. Alotaibi,
Yas Al-Hadeethi,
Vaibhava Srivastava,
Bassim Arkook,
Sadanand,
Pooja Lohia,
Dilip Kumar Dwivedi,
Ahmad Umar,
Hassan Algadi,
Sotirios Baskoutas
Affiliations
Pooja Tiwari
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur 273010, India
Maged F. Alotaibi
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Yas Al-Hadeethi
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Vaibhava Srivastava
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur 273010, India
Bassim Arkook
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Sadanand
Photonics and Photovoltaic Research Lab, Department of Physics and Material Science, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur 273010, India
Pooja Lohia
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur 273010, India
Dilip Kumar Dwivedi
Photonics and Photovoltaic Research Lab, Department of Physics and Material Science, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur 273010, India
Ahmad Umar
Department of Chemistry, College of Science and Arts, Promising Centre for Sensors and Electronic Devices (PCSED), Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia
Hassan Algadi
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia
Sotirios Baskoutas
Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
In the present paper, the theoretical investigation of the device structure ITO/CeO2/SnS/Spiro-OMeTAD/Mo of SnS-based solar cell has been performed. The aim of this work is to examine how the Spiro-OMeTAD HTL affects the performance of SnS-based heterostructure solar cell. Using SCAPS-1D simulation software, various parameters of SnS-based solar cell such as work function, series and shunt resistance and working temperature have been investigated. With the help of Spiro-OMeTAD, the suggested cell’s open-circuit voltage was increased to 344 mV. The use of Spiro-OMeTAD HTL in the SnS-based solar cell resulted in 14% efficiency increase, and the proposed heterojunction solar cell has 25.65% efficiency. The cell’s performance is determined by the carrier density and width of the CeO2 ETL (electron transport layer), SnS absorber layer and Spiro-OMeTAD HTL (hole transport layer). These data reveal that the Spiro-OMeTAD solar cells could have been a good HTL (hole transport layer) in regards to producing SnS-based heterojunction solar cell with high efficiency and reduced cost.
