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Micron Thick Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids

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J
James Z. Fan
M
Maral Vafaie
K
Koen Bertens
M
Mykhailo Sytnyk
J
João M. Pina
L
Laxmi Kishore Sagar
O
Olivier Ouellette
A
Andrew H. Proppe
A
Armin Sedighian Rasouli
Y
Yajun Gao
S
Se‐Woong Baek
B
Bin Chen
F
Frédéric Laquai
S
Sjoerd Hoogland
F
F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer
W
Wolfgang Heiß
E
Edward H. Sargent *
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01614delete
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Shortwave infrared colloidal quantum dots (SWIR-CQDs) are semiconductors capable of harvesting across the AM1.5G solar spectrum. Today's SWIR-CQD solar cells rely on spin-coating; however, these films exhibit cracking once thickness exceeds similar to 500 nm. We posited that a blade-coating strategy could enable thick QD films. We developed a ligand exchange with an additional resolvation step that enabled the dispersion of SWIR-CQDs. We then engineered a quaternary ink that combined high-viscosity solvents with short QD stabilizing ligands. This ink, blade-coated over a mild heating bed, formed micron-thick SWIR-CQD films. These SWIR-CQD solar cells achieved short-circuit current densities (Jsc) that reach 39 mA cm(-2), corresponding to the harvest of 60% of total photons incident under AM1.5G illumination. External quantum efficiency measurements reveal both the first exciton peak and the closest Fabry-Perot resonance peak reaching approximately 80%.this is the highest unbiased EQE reported beyond 1400 nm in a solution-processed semiconductor.
Keywords:
infrared photovoltaics
quantum dots
ligand exchange
blade coating
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Nano Letters cover
Nano Letters
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9.1
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University of Erlangen Nuremberg
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king abdullah university of science & technology
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university of toronto
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