Zinc Oxide/Cuprous(I) Oxide-Based Solar Cells Prepared by Electrodeposition

• Authors: M. Pławecki , E. Rówiński , Ł. Mieszczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this research was to fabricate zinc oxide/cuprous(I) oxide-based heterojunction solar cells with the use of electrodeposition methods, and further to investigate their structures and photovoltaic properties. The ZnO and Cu₂O were used as n- and p-type semiconductors, respectively, to fabricate photovoltaic devices based on Ag/ZnO/Cu₂O/Cu(100) heterojunction structures. The crystallite sizes of ZnO and Cu₂O were determined to be 25.4(3) nm and 69.8(6) nm, respectively. It was pointed out that efficiencies of the solar cells can be gradually adjusted, using different thicknesses of Cu₂O layers, to achieve values as high as 2.7%. The standard diode model and high device performance provide new insights into the issue, outlining guidelines for high-performance solar cells and suggesting that a metal-n-type semiconductor-p-type semiconductor nanostructure-crystal layered, sandwiched-type architecture is a promising platform: to boost the efficiency.

Keywords

EN

61.05.cp; 73.50.Pz; 73.40.Sx

Discipline

• 61.05.cp: X-ray diffraction
• 73.40.Sx: Metal-semiconductor-metal structures
• 73.50.Pz: Photoconduction and photovoltaic effects

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 130
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1144-1146

Dates

published

2016-10

Contributors

author

M. Pławecki

• Institute of Materials Science, University of Silesia, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland

author

E. Rówiński

• Institute of Materials Science, University of Silesia, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland

author

Ł. Mieszczak

• Institute of Materials Science, University of Silesia, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.130.1144