Effect of ZnO layer thickness upon optoelectrical properties of NiO/ ZnO heterojunction prepared at room temperature |
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Authors: | Ahmed Obaid M Alzahrani M Sh Abdel-wahab Meshari Alayash M S Aida |
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Affiliation: | 1.Center of Nanotechnology,King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,Saudi Arabia;2.Physics Department, Faculty of Science,King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,Saudi Arabia;3.Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences,Beni-Suef University,Beni-Suef,Egypt |
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Abstract: | In this work, p-NiO/n-ZnO heterostructures were successfully prepared at room temperature using RF sputtering technique. The influence of ZnO layer thickness on the performance of the heterojunction was investigated. The deposited ZnO layers have a hexagonal Wurtzite structure with preferable growth orientations along (002) and (103) for thinner films. Increasing the thickness results in more crystallographic orientation randomness. The current–voltage measurements of the realized heterojunctions showed a clear rectifying behavior. The measured ideality factor varies from 2.5 to 1.6 according to the thickness of ZnO layer. The series resistance of the device is enlarged with increasing ZnO thickness. The deduced parameters from the I–V characteristics suggest that 200 nm is the optimal thickness of the ZnO layer according to our experimental conditions. We attribute the relatively better performance of this thickness to achieving reasonable compensation between serial resistance and ideality factor. The best heterojunction was tested and successfully used as a UV detector. |
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