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Carrier extraction from metallic perovskite oxide nanoparticles

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Date
09/07/2021
Author
McDonald, Calum
Ni, Chengsheng
Švrček, Vladimir
Macias-Montero, Manuel
Velusamy, Tamilselvan
Connor, Paul A.
Maguire, Paul
Irvine, John T. S.
Mariotti, Davide
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/K022237/1
Keywords
QD Chemistry
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Abstract
We observe the extraction of carriers excited between two types of bands in the perovskite oxide, Sr-deficient strontium niobate (Sr0.9NbO3). Sr0.9NbO3 exhibits metallic behaviour and high conductivity, whilst also displaying broad absorption across the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectral regions, making it an attractive material for solar energy conversion. Furthermore, the optoelectronic properties of strontium niobate can easily be tuned by varying the Sr fraction or through doping. Sr-deficient strontium niobate exhibits a split conduction band, which enables two types of optical transitions: intraband and interband. However, whether such carriers can be extracted from an unusual material as such remains unproven. In this report, we have overcome the immense challenge of photocarrier extraction by fabricating an extremely thin absorber layer of Sr0.9NbO3 nanoparticles. These findings open up great opportunities to harvest a very broad solar spectral absorption range with reduced recombination losses.
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McDonald , C , Ni , C , Švrček , V , Macias-Montero , M , Velusamy , T , Connor , P A , Maguire , P , Irvine , J T S & Mariotti , D 2021 , ' Carrier extraction from metallic perovskite oxide nanoparticles ' , Nanoscale , vol. Advance Article . https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR02890A
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Nanoscale
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR02890A
ISSN
2040-3364
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Open Access article. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
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This work was supported by EPSRC (EP/K022237/1, EP/M024938/1 and EP/R023638/1), the EPSRC Supergen SuperSolar Hub, the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) of Northern Ireland Studentship, and by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23609

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