| dc.contributor.author | Yang, Chuanxi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Polizzotti, Alex | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon, Roy G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Steinmann, Vera | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brandt, Riley E | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chakraborty, Rupak | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jaramillo, Rafael | |
| dc.contributor.author | Young, Matthew C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ofori-Okai, Benjamin Kwasi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nelson, Keith Adam | |
| dc.contributor.author | Buonassisi, Anthony | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-02T14:30:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-02T14:30:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-02 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2016-01 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2166-532X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108571 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Through empirical observations, sodium (Na) has been identified as a benign contaminant in some thin-film solar cells. Here, we intentionally contaminate thermally evaporated tin sulfide (SnS) thin-films with sodium and measure the SnS absorber properties and solar cell characteristics. The carrier concentration increases from 2 × 10[superscript 16] cm[superscript −3] to 4.3 × 10[superscript17] cm[superscript−3] in Na-doped SnS thin-films, when using a 13 nm NaCl seed layer, which is detrimental for SnS photovoltaic applications but could make Na-doped SnS an attractive candidate in thermoelectrics. The observed trend in carrier concentration is in good agreement with density functional theory calculations, which predict an acceptor-type Na[subscriptSn] defect with low formation energy. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Department of Energy (SunShot Initiative, Contract No. DE-EE0005329) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant No. CHE-11115577) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | MIT Energy Initiative (Fellowship) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Postdoctoral Research Award) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award No. DMR-08-19762) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.). Center for Nanoscale Systems (Award No. ECS-0335765) | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | American Institute of Physics (AIP) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4941713 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.source | Other univ. web domain | en_US |
| dc.title | The impact of sodium contamination in tin sulfide thin-film solar cells | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Steinmann, Vera, Riley E. Brandt, Rupak Chakraborty, R. Jaramillo, Matthew Young, Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai, Chuanxi Yang, Alex Polizzotti, Keith A. Nelson, roy G. Gordon and Tonio Buonassisi, "The impact of sodium contamination in tin sulfide thin-film solar cells." APL Materials 4 (2016): 026103. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Steinmann, Vera | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Brandt, Riley E | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Chakraborty, Rupak | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Jaramillo, Rafael | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Young, Matthew C. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Ofori-Okai, Benjamin Kwasi | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Nelson, Keith Adam | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Buonassisi, Anthony | |
| dc.relation.journal | APL Materials | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Steinmann, Vera; Brandt, Riley E.; Chakraborty, Rupak; Jaramillo, R.; Young, Matthew; Ofori-Okai, Benjamin K.; Yang, Chuanxi; Polizzotti, Alex; Nelson, Keith A.; Gordon, Roy G.; Buonassisi, Tonio | en_US |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6715-5195 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2785-552X | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-5048 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3116-6719 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-6786 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7804-5418 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-4937 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
