Porous alumina templates and nanostructured CdS for thin film solar cell applications |
| |
| Authors: | Alberto Aguilera Vivekanand Jayaraman Srikalyan Sanagapalli R Suresh Singh Visweswaran Jayaraman Karen Sampson Vijay P Singh |
| |
| Affiliation: | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of Kentucky, 453 Anderson Hall, Lexington, KY 40506, USA |
| |
| Abstract: | Nanostructured CdS was grown by electrodeposition of cadmium sulfide inside a porous alumina template. Uniform pore size and spacing in the template was achieved when the starting material for the template was aluminum foil. Typical pore size was 45 nm. Nanostructured CdS was also deposited by electrodeposition on indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass and by solution growth on ITO-coated glass. Schottky diodes were formed on nanocrystalline CdS and the analysis of their current–voltage characteristics yielded a diode ideality factor (n) of 2.6 and a reverse saturation current density (JS) of 1.00×10−5 A/cm2. Corresponding values for the Schottky diode on polycrystalline CdS were 3.4 and 1.93×10−6 A/cm2. |
| |
| Keywords: | Porous alumina Electrodeposition Nanostructured CdS Schottky diode |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
