Unassisted Water Splitting Exceeding 9% Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)2 Photocathode with Modified Surface Band Structure and Halide Perovskite Solar Cell

Bonhyeong Koo; Daehan Kim; Passarut Boonmongkolras; Seong Ryul Pae; Segi Byun; Jekyung Kim; June Hyuk Lee; Dong Hoe Kim; Suncheul Kim; Byung Tae Ahn; Sung Wook Nam; Byungha Shin

doi:10.1021/acsaem.9b02387

Unassisted Water Splitting Exceeding 9% Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)₂ Photocathode with Modified Surface Band Structure and Halide Perovskite Solar Cell

Bonhyeong Koo
, Daehan Kim
, Passarut Boonmongkolras
, Seong Ryul Pae
, Segi Byun
, Jekyung Kim
, June Hyuk Lee
, Dong Hoe Kim
, Suncheul Kim
, Byung Tae Ahn
, Sung Wook Nam
, Byungha Shin

Department of Medicine

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korea Institute of Energy Research
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Sejong University
Samsung

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Abstract

By introducing ZnS between Cu(In, Ga)(S,Se)₂ (CIGS) and the CdS, we greatly improved the photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of the CIGS photocathode for hydrogen evolution. Chemical and structural analysis reveals that the enhanced performance is due to additional band bending driven by in-diffusion of Zn into the CIGS and suppression of nonradiative recombination. The improved onset potential of CIGS photocathode was exploited by building a tandem device with a perovskite absorber for bias-free water splitting. A PEC device with a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency exceeding 9% (the highest among PEC cells including a CIGS photocathode) with a stable operation of 6.5 h is demonstrated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2296-2303
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Applied Energy Materials
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b02387
State	Published - 23 Mar 2020

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Keywords

Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se) photocathode
perovskite solar cell
solar-to-hydrogen
surface band bending
unassisted solar water splitting

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Koo, B., Kim, D., Boonmongkolras, P., Pae, S. R., Byun, S., Kim, J., Lee, J. H., Kim, D. H., Kim, S., Ahn, B. T., Nam, S. W., & Shin, B. (2020). Unassisted Water Splitting Exceeding 9% Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)₂ Photocathode with Modified Surface Band Structure and Halide Perovskite Solar Cell. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(3), 2296-2303. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b02387

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Koo, B, Kim, D, Boonmongkolras, P, Pae, SR, Byun, S, Kim, J, Lee, JH, Kim, DH, Kim, S, Ahn, BT, Nam, SW & Shin, B 2020, 'Unassisted Water Splitting Exceeding 9% Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)₂ Photocathode with Modified Surface Band Structure and Halide Perovskite Solar Cell', ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2296-2303. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b02387

Unassisted Water Splitting Exceeding 9% Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)₂ Photocathode with Modified Surface Band Structure and Halide Perovskite Solar Cell. / Koo, Bonhyeong; Kim, Daehan; Boonmongkolras, Passarut et al.
In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Vol. 3, No. 3, 23.03.2020, p. 2296-2303.

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