Fabrication and Characterization of ZnSCubic : P3HT, ZnSHexa : P3HT and ZnSHexa : P3HT:PVA-Ag Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Authors T. Abdul Kareem1, A. Anu Kaliani2
Affiliations

1 Department of Physics, University of Calicut, 673635 Kerala, India

2 Department of Physics, Kongunadu Arts and Science College, 641029 Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Е-mail abdulkareem.t@gmail.com
Issue Volume 7, Year 2015, Number 2
Dates Received 02 April 2015; published online 10 June 2015
Citation T. Abdul Kareem, A. Anu Kaliani, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 7 No 2, 02026 (2015)
DOI
PACS Number(s) 78.20. – e, 78.40.Fy, 78.56. – a, 78.67. – n, 88.40.jr
Keywords ZnS nanoparticles (2) , Solar cells (17) , High Voc.
Annotation This paper describes the fabrication of P3HT based bulk heterojunction solar cell using ZnS nanopar-ticles of sphalarite and wurtzite crystal structure and discusses their photovoltaic characteristics. It is found that the device of P3HT : ZnS can give higher Voc and surface modified wurtzite ZnS is able to give higher Voc (~ 1.3 V) as well as higher current density (229.60 μA/cm2) and comparable efficiency (0.032 %). Active layer (P3HT : ZnS) showed a broad optical absorption from 320 nm to 650 nm and it is seen that the absorption intensity increased in the blend than the pristine P3HT.

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