Author:
Phan Thanh Luan,Yu Woo Jong
Abstract
AbstractWe report a black silicon-carbon nanotube (bSi-CNT) hybrid structure for ultrahigh absorbance at wide spectral range of wavelength (300–1200 nm). CNTs are densely grown on entire bSi stems by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) through uniformly coating Fe catalyst. The bSi-CNT not only increases the surface roughness for enhancing the light suppression, but also allows the absorption of light in a wide wavelength range over the Si band gap (>1000 nm owing to 1.1 eV) due to the small band gap of CNT (0.6 eV). At short wavelength below Si band gap (<1000 nm), the absorbance of bSi-CNT shows average of 98.1%, while bSi shows 89.4%, which is because of high surface roughness of bSi-CNT that enhancing the light trapping. At long wavelength over Si band gap, the absorbance of bSi-CNT was maintained to 96.3% because of the absorption in CNT, while absorbance of bSi abruptly reduces with increase wavelength. Especially, the absorbance of bSi-CNT was showed 93.5% at 1200 nm, which is about 30~90% higher than previously reported bSi. Simple growth of CNTs on bSi can dramatically enhances the absorbance without using any antireflection coating layer. Thus, this study can be employed for realizing high efficiency photovoltaic, photocatalytic applications.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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