Electrochemical properties of a zinc/polyvinyl alcohol-potassium hydroxide/carbon cell have been investigated. In this cell, PVA-KOH gel has been used as an electrolyte with PVA/KOH wt.% ratio of 60:40, while zinc and carbon rods served as electrodes. The cylindrical glass vessel of length 3.0 cm and of diameter 2.0 cm has been used as a cell compartment. The current-voltage characteristics and open circuit voltage-time, charge voltage/current-time and discharge voltage/current-time studies have been done. The open circuit voltage has been observed for 160 h. It has been found that the cell shows stability and is rechargeable, too.
Electrical characteristics of the heterojunction fabricated by thermal deposition of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) on an n-silicon substrate have been investigated. The frequency has significant effect on capacitance (C), conductance (G) and series resistance (R_{s}) interface states (D_{it}) of the junction. Measured capacitance and conductance were corrected for R_{s}. The conductance technique was used to measure the density of the interface states. This method revealed the value of the interface state density distribution for the Au/n-Si/CuPc/Au interfaces of the order of 10^{12} cm^{-2} eV^{-1}.