CSS Antimony Selenide Film Morphology and High Efficiency PV Devices

Knowledge of close-space sublimation (CSS) Sb 2 Se 3 growth conditions is vital for proper understanding of PV performance, and optimization of Sb 2 Se 3 devices. In this work, various growth parameters have been studied and the resulting Sb 2 Se 3 films have been characterized using SEM, XRD and optical transmission measurements, thus illustrating the desired properties for high device performance. PV devices were fabricated using TiO 2 as a window layer combined with P3HT or PTB7 as the hole transport material, resulting in V oc =0.42 V, J sc =33.4 mAcm −2 , FF = 43.2% and PCE = 6.06% for P3HT.