Performance of different anti-reflection coating and TCO layers for kesterite based thin film photovoltaic devices using Essential Macleod simulation program

Simya, O.K.; Balachander, K.; Dhanalakshmi, D.; Ashok, A.

doi:10.1016/j.spmi.2020.106579

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“…For pure ZnO, the PL intensity decreased with increasing bath growth temperature. It indicates that the existence of surface defects and the surface state (the dangling bond of the surface) [8] is important for the PL of the film, which is closely related to the water bath temperature. ZnO film presented better photoluminescence of a bath growth temperature at 40°С.…”

Section: Optical Propertiesmentioning

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“…Al is an excellent dopant for ZnO because it is not toxic, cost-effective and easier to be incorporated into the ZnO lattice [7]. Al-doped ZnO because of its high optical transmittance and low resistivity has been extensively investigated as a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer [8], photocatalysis [9], display devices [10], sunscreen [11] and many other fields. ZnO can be prepared by the chemical vapour deposition [12], electrochemical deposition (ECD) [13], magnetron sputtering [14], hydrothermal [15], sol-gel [16].…”

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Growth temperature on ZnO:Al thin films morphology and optical properties

Xin

2021

Surface Engineering

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ZnO:Al thin films were deposited on a glass substrate by a sol-gel method with a combined two-step, spin coating and growth treatment in a water bath. The effect of Al incorporation and the bath growth temperature on the crystal structure, morphology and optical properties of the samples are investigated. The results showed that the morphology of 3% Al-doped film was rod-like nanostructure at 40°С and granular at 60 and 90°С. The lattice strain increases after the Al-doping at 40 and 60°C. And the strain of 3% Al-doped film decreased with increasing the bath growth temperature. The optical band gap of pure and 3% Al-doped film at different bath growth temperature is calculated. Relatively better visible light transmittance and photoluminescence (PL) characteristics were obtained at 40°С. Blue emission associated with surface defects was observed.

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Section: Optical Propertiesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Growth temperature on ZnO:Al thin films morphology and optical properties

Xin

2021

Surface Engineering

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“…Antireflection coating (ARC) is an optical coating which reduces undesirable reflections from substrate surfaces and increases transmittance [65,66]. It is extensively used in industrial applications such as solar cells and photovoltaics, electronic device displays, and also general purposes, like spectacle and photographic lenses [65][66][67]. In this regard, IO based nanomaterials especially ITO has gained a special attention and ARC can be applied on this TCO thin films for the applications [66,67].…”

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Indium Oxide Based Nanomaterials: Fabrication Strategies, Properties, Applications, Challenges and Future Prospect

Khan¹,

Sarkar²,

Pal³

et al. 2021

Post-Transition Metals

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Nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors (MOS) in the form of thin film or bulk attract significant interest of materials researchers in both basic and applied sciences. Among these important MOSs, indium oxide (IO) is a valuable one due to its novel properties and wide range of applications in diversified fields. IO based nanostructured thin films possess excellent visible transparency, metal-like electrical conductivity and infrared reflectance properties. This chapter mainly highlights the synthesis strategies of IO based bulk nanomaterials with variable morphologies starting from spherical nanoparticles to nano-rods, nano-wires, nano-needles, nanopencils, nanopushpins etc. In addition, thin film deposition and periodic 1-dimensional (1D)/2-dimensional (2D) surface texturing techniques of IO based nanostructured thin films vis-à-vis their functional properties and applications have been discussed. The chapter covers a state-of-the-art survey on the fabrication strategies and recent advancement in the properties of IO based nanomaterials with their different areas of applications. Finally, the challenges and future prospect of IO based nanomaterials have been discussed briefly.

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“…It can run under Microsoft Windows operating system and has a true multi-document interface, which is the most complete thin film computing and analysis software on the market today. It provides a complete set of performance calculation functions, which can calculate the characteristic parameters of a given optical film, not only the reflectivity, transmittance and phase, but it also can calculate the parameters including density, absorption rate, colour, overspeed, the amount of elliptic polarization and light dispersion, as well as the 0-3 derivative of wavelength [23]. Therefore, Essential MacLeod software can be used to simulate the optical properties of the film, providing theoretical support for the experiment.…”

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Study of composite TiN/Ag/Cu2O/TiO2 with improved photocatalytic performance

Shi

Zhu

et al. 2021

PAC

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TiO2 film has the advantage of good photochemical stability and it can be used for self-cleaning glasses. However, due to the wide band gap, the spectral response range of TiO2 film is restricted to the ultraviolet region. In this work, based on the research of TiO2 thin films, multilayer TiN/Ag/Cu2O/TiO2 films were designed and successfully prepared. The structure and properties of the obtained samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, spectral ellipsometry (SE), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer. The results show that p-n heterojunction will be formed between Cu2O and TiO2 in the multilayer film, thus reducing the band gap of TiO2 film. Based on the analysis of the photocatalytic mechanism of the multilayer films, a conclusion may be drawn that the designed multilayer film is helpful to improve the photocatalytic efficiency of titanium dioxide and expand its utilization of sunlight.

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Performance of different anti-reflection coating and TCO layers for kesterite based thin film photovoltaic devices using Essential Macleod simulation program

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Growth temperature on ZnO:Al thin films morphology and optical properties

Growth temperature on ZnO:Al thin films morphology and optical properties

Indium Oxide Based Nanomaterials: Fabrication Strategies, Properties, Applications, Challenges and Future Prospect

Study of composite TiN/Ag/Cu2O/TiO2 with improved photocatalytic performance

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