ZnO/CdTe heterojunctions prepared by r.f. sputtering |
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Authors: | AM Mancini P Pierini A Valentini L Vasanelli A Quirini |
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Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari and Unità Gruppo Nazionale Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy |
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Abstract: | ZnO/CdTe heterojunctions were prepared by r.f. sputtering of ZnO films onto p-type CdTe single crystals. The ZnO deposition was carried out using a ZnO target and an Ar-H2 mixture as the sputtering gas. The ZnO films obtained under these conditions show a very good optical transmission (about 90%) between 0.4 and 0.8 μm and a low resistivity. The electrical properties of the ZnO/CdTe heterojunctions were studied by means of current-voltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements carried out at different temperatures. The dark I-V characteristics show that a multistep tunnelling mechanism controls the transport of charge carriers across the junction. The presence of interface states was shown to play an important role in the electrical properties of the junction. Tentative measurements of the solar energy conversion efficiency gave a value of about 3.5% without any attempt at optimization of the cell parameters. |
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