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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
Volume 325, Issue -, Pages 29-38Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2016.04.003
Keywords
ZnS nanoparticles; Doped ZnS; Solar cell; Band gap tuning and conductivity
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- Higher education commission of Pakistan [20-/2329/NRPU/RD/HEC/12]
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Zinc sulphide (ZnS) and Cd-doped ZnS nanoparticles, Zn1-xCdxS (x = 0.2-0.5), were synthesized by wet chemical method. Optical, electrical and photovoltaic properties of the nanoparticles were investigated. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) supplemented with EDAX was used to find grain size and chemical composition of the synthesized material. A significant bathochromic shift of absorption band with respect to the undoped zinc sulphide was noticed by increasing the cadmium concentration in the doped samples. Consequently the band gap was tuned into the visible region. XRD analysis showed that the material existed in cubic crystalline state. The conductivity of the doped material, though progressively increasing step by step, was found lower than undoped ZnS at cadmium contents ranging from 0.2 to 0.4 M but at the highest dopant concentration (Cd, 0.5 M) the conductivity attained a value higher than undoped ZnS by 1.21 x 10(-5) Omega(-1) m(-1). The synthesized material in combination with P3HT, poly (3-hexyl thiophene) was used in the fabrication of solar cells. These devices gave higher short circuit densities and efficiencies than the reference device.% eta was increased by 2.33 times with respect to reference device. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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