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ReviewNanoscale advances2024

Nanocrystals as performance-boosting materials for solar cells.

Boping Yang, Junjie Cang, Zhiling Li, Jian Chen

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Review in Nanoscale advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Boping YangCollege of Science, Guizhou Institute of Technology Guiyang 550003 China bpyang023@163.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6696-1555
Junjie CangSchool of Electrical Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology Yancheng 224051 China.
Zhiling LiCollege of Science, Guizhou Institute of Technology Guiyang 550003 China bpyang023@163.com.
Jian ChenCollege of Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology Guiyang 550003 China cjycit@163.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanocrystals (NCs) have been widely studied owing to their distinctive properties and promising application in new-generation photoelectric devices. In photovoltaic devices, semiconductor NCs can act as efficient light harvesters for high-performance solar cells. Besides light absorption, NCs have shown great significance as functional layers for charge (hole and electron) transport and interface modification to improve the power conversion efficiency and stability of solar cells. NC-based functional layers can boost hole/electron transport ability, adjust energy level alignment between a light absorbing layer and charge transport layer, broaden the absorption range of an active layer, enhance intrinsic stability, and reduce fabrication cost. In this review, recent advances in NCs as a hole transport layer, electron transport layer, and interfacial layer are discussed. Additionally, NC additives to improve the performance of solar cells are demonstrated. Finally, a summary and future prospects of NC-based functional materials in solar cells are presented, addressing their limitations and suggesting potential solutions.

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PMID38419867
PMCPMC10898446

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