Photovoltaic cells based on nickel phthalocyanine and zinc oxide formed by atomic layer deposition

• Authors: Pavlo Stakhira , Georgij Pakhomov , Vlad Cherpak , Dmitro Volynyuk , Grzegorz Luka , Marek Godlewski , Elżbieta Guziewicz , Zenon Hotra
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The introduction of an ultrathin zinc oxide (ZnO) layer formed by the atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique was found to improve the operation parameters of nickel phthalocyanine (NiPc) based photovoltaic cells with a transparent bottom electrode, indium tin oxide (ITO). This improvement is attributed to several reasons, such as I) increase of photovoltaic yield in ITO/p-NiPc/n-ZnO/Al cells incorporating a hybrid heterojunction as compared to single-layer ITO/NiPc/Al cells, II) enhancement of the overall spectral response in the double-layer cells and III) extension of long-term operational stability.

Keywords

EN

hybrid devices; photovoltaic cells; phthalocyanines; conductivity

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 798-803

Dates

published

1 - 10 - 2010

online

22 - 7 - 2010

Contributors

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Pavlo Stakhira

• Lviv Polytechnic National University, S. Bandera 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

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Georgij Pakhomov

• Institute for Physics of Microstructure of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPM RAS), RF 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-15, Russia

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Vlad Cherpak

• Lviv Polytechnic National University, S. Bandera 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

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Dmitro Volynyuk

• Lviv Polytechnic National University, S. Bandera 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

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Grzegorz Luka

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland

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Marek Godlewski

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Elżbieta Guziewicz

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland

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Zenon Hotra

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-009-0159-9