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Designing the electronic structures of the van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures to obtain high-efficiency solar cells showed a fascinating prospect. In this work, we screened the potential of vdW heterostructures for solar cell application by combining the group III-VI MXA (M = Al, Ga, In and X-A = S, Se, Te) and elementary group VI X-B (X-B = Se, Te) monolayers based on first-principle calculations. The results highlight that InSe/Te vdW heterostructure presents type-II electronic band structure feature with a band gap of 0.88 eV, where tellurene and InSe monolayer are as absorber and window layer, respectively. Interestingly, tellurene has a 1.14 eV direct band gap to produce the photoexcited electron easily. Furthermore, InSe/Te vdW heterostructure shows remarkably light absorption capacities and distinguished maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 13.39%. Our present study will inspire researchers to design vdW heterostructures for solar cell application in a purposeful way.
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MATERIALS
ISSN: 1996-1944
Year: 2021
Issue: 14
Volume: 14
3 . 7 4 8
JCR@2021
3 . 1 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
ESI HC Threshold:142
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:3
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WoS CC Cited Count: 14
SCOPUS Cited Count: 8
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