title: A Silicon Nanocrystal Schottky Junction Solar Cell produced from Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals.
abstract: Solution-processed semiconductors are seen as a promising route to reducing the cost of the photovoltaic device manufacture. We are reporting a single-layer Schottky photovoltaic device that was fabricated by spin-coating intrinsic silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) from colloidal suspension. The thin-film formation process was based on Si NCs without any ligand attachment, exchange, or removal reactions. The Schottky junction device showed a photovoltaic response with a power conversion efficiency of 0.02%, a fill factor of 0.26, short circuit-current density of 0.148 mA/cm2, and open-circuit voltage of 0.51 V.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. uk@me.umn.edu.
authors.forename: Chin-Yi
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Uwe R
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Kortshagen