All solution‐processed chalcogenide solar cells–from single functional layers towards a 13.8% efficient CIGS device

YE Romanyuk, H Hagendorfer… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Solution processing of inorganic thin films has become an important thrust in material
research community because it offers low‐cost and high‐throughput deposition of various …

Room temperature sputtered aluminum-doped ZnO thin film transparent electrode for application in solar cells and for low-band-gap optoelectronic devices

AC Badgujar, BS Yadav, GK Jha, SR Dhage - ACS omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) is a popular, low-cost, nontoxic material that finds
application as a transparent conducting electrode in photonic, sensing, and photovoltaic …

A comparative study of different rare-earth (Gd, Nd, and Sm) metals doped ZnO thin films and its room temperature ammonia gas sensor activity: Synthesis …

K Kasirajan, LB Chandrasekar, S Maheswari… - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide and rare earth (Gd, Nd, and Sm) doped zinc oxide thin film has been synthesized
chemically by facile and cost-effective SILAR method. The impact of rare-earth doping on …

[PDF][PDF] Highly transparent and conductive ZnO: Al thin films from a low temperature aqueous solution approach

H Hagendorfer, K Lienau, S Nishiwaki, CM Fella… - Adv. Mater, 2014 - academia.edu
Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) are a unique class of materials exhibiting optical
transparency combined with metallike electrical conductivity and thus are of utmost …

Facile methodology of sol-gel synthesis for metal oxide nanostructures

S Thiagarajan, A Sanmugam… - Recent applications in sol …, 2017 - books.google.com
Sol-gel is a low temperature, highly controllable and cost effective method for production of
homogeneous, highly stoichiometric and high quality ultrafine nanostructures. Sol-gel route …

AZO thin films by sol-gel process for integrated optics

L Znaidi, T Touam, D Vrel, N Souded, S Ben Yahia… - Coatings, 2013 - mdpi.com
Undoped and aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films are prepared by the sol-gel
process. Zinc acetate dihydrate, ethanol, and monoethanolamine are used as precursor …

Effect of different dopant elements (Al, Mg and Ni) on microstructural, optical and electrochemical properties of ZnO thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis (SP)

H Benzarouk, A Drici, M Mekhnache, A Amara… - Superlattices and …, 2012 - Elsevier
In the present work we studied the influence of the dopant elements and concentration on
the microstructural and electrochemical properties of ZnO thin films deposited by spray …

Influence of Sn doping level on antibacterial activity and certain physical properties of ZnO films deposited using a simplified spray pyrolysis technique

M Vasanthi, K Ravichandran, NJ Begum… - Superlattices and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline tin–doped zinc oxide (ZnO: Sn) films with different Sn doping levels (0, 2,
4,…, 10at.%) were fabricated using a simplified spray pyrolysis technique. All the deposited …

Dielectric investigations of pristine and modified ZnO nanoparticles for energy storage devices

D Kaur, T Sharma, C Madhu - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Pristine ZnO, Al-doped ZnO, and TiO2 coated ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were
synthesized by the wet chemical precipitation technique. All the synthesized NPs were …

Effect of annealing time on structure, morphology, and optical properties of nanostructured CdO thin films prepared by CBD technique

KR Kadhim, RY Mohammed - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nanostructured cadmium oxide (CdO) thin films were deposited onto glass substrates using
the chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique. Different deposition parameters such as …