Nature Communications (Aug 2022)
Strong absorption and ultrafast localisation in NaBiS2 nanocrystals with slow charge-carrier recombination
- Yi-Teng Huang,
- Seán R. Kavanagh,
- Marcello Righetto,
- Marin Rusu,
- Igal Levine,
- Thomas Unold,
- Szymon J. Zelewski,
- Alexander J. Sneyd,
- Kaiwen Zhang,
- Linjie Dai,
- Andrew J. Britton,
- Junzhi Ye,
- Jaakko Julin,
- Mari Napari,
- Zhilong Zhang,
- James Xiao,
- Mikko Laitinen,
- Laura Torrente-Murciano,
- Samuel D. Stranks,
- Akshay Rao,
- Laura M. Herz,
- David O. Scanlon,
- Aron Walsh,
- Robert L. Z. Hoye
Affiliations
- Yi-Teng Huang
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Seán R. Kavanagh
- Department of Chemistry, University College London
- Marcello Righetto
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory
- Marin Rusu
- Struktur und Dynamik von Energiematerialien, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
- Igal Levine
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
- Thomas Unold
- Struktur und Dynamik von Energiematerialien, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
- Szymon J. Zelewski
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Alexander J. Sneyd
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Kaiwen Zhang
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
- Linjie Dai
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Andrew J. Britton
- School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds
- Junzhi Ye
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Jaakko Julin
- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä
- Mari Napari
- School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
- Zhilong Zhang
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- James Xiao
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Mikko Laitinen
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich
- Laura Torrente-Murciano
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
- Samuel D. Stranks
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Akshay Rao
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Laura M. Herz
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory
- David O. Scanlon
- Department of Chemistry, University College London
- Aron Walsh
- Department of Materials, Imperial College London
- Robert L. Z. Hoye
- Department of Materials, Imperial College London
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32669-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Ternary chalcogenides are gaining interest as nontoxic, stable solar absorbers. Here, the authors investigate NaBiS2, finding cation disorder to be a critical parameter that enables its high absorption strength and unusual charge-carrier kinetics.