Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Cascade surface modification of colloidal quantum dot inks enables efficient bulk homojunction photovoltaics

  • Min-Jae Choi,
  • F. Pelayo García de Arquer,
  • Andrew H. Proppe,
  • Ali Seifitokaldani,
  • Jongmin Choi,
  • Junghwan Kim,
  • Se-Woong Baek,
  • Mengxia Liu,
  • Bin Sun,
  • Margherita Biondi,
  • Benjamin Scheffel,
  • Grant Walters,
  • Dae-Hyun Nam,
  • Jea Woong Jo,
  • Olivier Ouellette,
  • Oleksandr Voznyy,
  • Sjoerd Hoogland,
  • Shana O. Kelley,
  • Yeon Sik Jung,
  • Edward. H. Sargent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13437-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It is challenging to realize doping and surface passivation simultaneously in colloidal quantum dot inks. Here Choi et al. employ a cascade surface modification approach to solve the problem and obtain record high efficiency of 13.3% for bulk homojunction solar cells based on these inks.