Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics via Reactivity-Controlled Solution-Phase Ligand Exchange

Jea Woong Jo; Younghoon Kim; Jongmin Choi; F. Pelayo García de Arquer; Grant Walters; Bin Sun; Olivier Ouellette; Junghwan Kim; Andrew H. Proppe; Rafael Quintero-Bermudez; James Fan; Jixian Xu; Chih Shan Tan; Oleksandr Voznyy; Edward H. Sargent

doi:10.1002/adma.201703627

Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics via Reactivity-Controlled Solution-Phase Ligand Exchange

Jea Woong Jo
, Younghoon Kim
, Jongmin Choi
, F. Pelayo García de Arquer
, Grant Walters
, Bin Sun
, Olivier Ouellette
, Junghwan Kim
, Andrew H. Proppe
, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez
, James Fan
, Jixian Xu
, Chih Shan Tan
, Oleksandr Voznyy
, Edward H. Sargent

Department of Energy and Materials Engineering

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The energy disorder that arises from colloidal quantum dot (CQD) polydispersity limits the open-circuit voltage (V_OC) and efficiency of CQD photovoltaics. This energy broadening is significantly deteriorated today during CQD ligand exchange and film assembly. Here, a new solution-phase ligand exchange that, via judicious incorporation of reactivity-engineered additives, provides improved monodispersity in final CQD films is reported. It has been found that increasing the concentration of the less reactive species prevents CQD fusion and etching. As a result, CQD solar cells with a V_OC of 0.7 V (vs 0.61 V for the control) for CQD films with exciton peak at 1.28 eV and a power conversion efficiency of 10.9% (vs 10.1% for the control) is achieved.

Original language	English
Article number	1703627
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	29
Issue number	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703627
State	Published - 20 Nov 2017

Keywords

colloidal quantum dots
open-circuit voltage
photovoltaics
polydispersity
solution-phase ligand exchange

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Jo, J. W., Kim, Y., Choi, J., de Arquer, F. P. G., Walters, G., Sun, B., Ouellette, O., Kim, J., Proppe, A. H., Quintero-Bermudez, R., Fan, J., Xu, J., Tan, C. S., Voznyy, O., & Sargent, E. H. (2017). Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics via Reactivity-Controlled Solution-Phase Ligand Exchange. Advanced Materials, 29(43), Article 1703627. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703627

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