YANG Mei-jia, ZHU Li-ping. Advance in Cu<sub>2</sub> O-ZnO Solar Cells and Investigation of Cu<sub>2</sub> O-ZnO Heterojunction Fabricated by Magnetron Sputtering[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(2): 202-207
YANG Mei-jia, ZHU Li-ping. Advance in Cu<sub>2</sub> O-ZnO Solar Cells and Investigation of Cu<sub>2</sub> O-ZnO Heterojunction Fabricated by Magnetron Sputtering[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(2): 202-207 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20133402.0202.
Advance in Cu2 O-ZnO Solar Cells and Investigation of Cu2 O-ZnO Heterojunction Fabricated by Magnetron Sputtering
O-ZnO heterojunction has shown great potential for photovoltaic application due to the low-cost
nontoxicity
abundance and variety of preparation methods. However
the resistivity of the Cu
2
O film in present ZnO-Cu
2
O heterojunction solar cell is relatively high
which seems to be the major problem for the low photoelectric conversion efficiency. Cu
2
O films were prepared using reactive direct current magnetron sputtering. The microstructures and properties were characterized using X-ray diffraction
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Hall-effect measurements. The influences of
q
V
(Ar)∶
q
V
(O
2
) on the structures and properties of deposited films were investigated. Single-phase Cu
2
O film with a resistivity of 88.5 cm
a Hall mobility of 16.9 cm
2
V
-1
s
-1
and a carrier concentration of 4.1910
15
cm
-3
were obtained at
q
V
(Ar)∶
q
V
(O
2
)=90∶0.3. The as-deposited Cu
2
O films have a great improvement in electrical performance and have more advantage in photovoltaic application compared with that prepared by electrochemical deposition or thermal oxidation. On that basis
the Cu
2
O-ZnO heterojunctions were fabricated in reversed growth sequence and the band alignments of the heterojunctions were given to investigate their potential application in solar cells. Possible areas for future work in this field were outlined and some suggestions were made based on our investigation of the Cu
2
O-ZnO heterojunctions fabricated by magnetron sputtering.
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