Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 492-498Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.09.017
Keywords
Spray method; Transmittance; Ideality factor; Barrier height; Series resistance; Heterojunction
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology [102-2221-E-244-019, 102-2622-E-244-001-CC3, 103-2221-E-244-018]
- National Science Council of Taiwan
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Modified spray method (m-SM) was used to fabricate 8 at%-lithium-doped NiO (NiO:8-Li) films using the nickel nitrate [Ni(NO3)(2)center dot 6H(2)O] and lithium nitrate (LiNO3) solutions. The NiO:8-Li solutions were sprayed on glass substrates and annealed at various temperatures. It found that the resistivity was decreased and the optical bandgap value were increased as annealing temperature of the NiO:8-Li films was increased from 400 degrees C to 600 degrees C. As the annealing temperature increased, the ratio (fitting area) of Ni3+/Ni2+ in the NiO:8-Li films decreased, which was caused by the increasing in carrier concentration. When the NiO:8-11 films was deposited on ITO glass substrates, the rectifying current-voltage (I-V) properties confirmed that a p-n heterojunction diode characteristic was successfully formed in a NiO:8-Li/ITO structure. The NiO:8-Li/ITO heterojunction parameters such as ideality factor (n), barrier height (phi(b)), and series resistance (R-s) were determined using conventional forward bias I-V characteristics, Cheung's and Norde's methods. The ideality factor of 3.3, barrier height of similar to 0.72 eV, and the series resistance of similar to 0.21 k Omega were estimated using I-V characteristics. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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