Comparative study of ZnO and CuSCN semiconducting nanowire electrodeposition on different substrates

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 391-398

  Sanchez, Sylvia ^a   Chappaz Gillot, Cyril ^a,b   Salazar, Raul ^a   Muguerra, Hervé ^c   Arbaoui, Edrisse ^a   Berson, Solenn ^b   Lévy Clément, Claude ^d   Ivanova, Valentina ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^d CNRS Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne   (France)

Author keywords

CuSCN; Electrochemical deposition; Semiconducting nanowires; ZnO

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXIDE MINERALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CUSCN; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PREPARATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SUBSTRATE MORPHOLOGIES; TRANSPARENT SEMICONDUCTOR;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84878506143     PISSN: 14328488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10008-012-1912-3     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Hu J, Odom TW, Lieber CM (1999) Chemistry and physics in one dimension:I synthesis and properties of nanowires and nanotubes. Acc Chem Res 32:435-445
2. Patzke GR, Krumeich F, Nesper R (2002) Oxidic nanotubes and nanorods-Anisotropic modules for a future nanotechnology. Angew Chem Int Ed 41:2446-2461
3. Xia Y, Yang P, Sun Y, Wu Y, Mayers B, Gates B, Yin Y, Kim F, Yan H (2003) Oneadimensional nanostructures: synthesis, characterization, and applications. Adv Mater 15:353-389
4. Rao CN, Deepak F, Gundiah G, Govindaraj A (2003) Inorganic nanowires. Prog Solid State Chem 31:5-147
5. Paunovic M, Schlesinger M (2006) Fundamentals of electrochemical deposition. Wiley, New York
6. Izaki M, Omi T (1996) Transparent zinc oxide films prepared by electrochemical reaction. Appl Phys Lett 68:2439-2440
7. Izaki M (1999) Preparation of transparent and conductive zinc oxide films by optimization of the twostep electrolysis technique. J Electrochem Soc 146:4517-4521
8. Peulon S, Lincot D (1996) Cathodic electrodeposition from aqueous solution of dense or open-structured zinc oxide films. Adv Mater 8:166-170
9. Peulon S, Lincot D (1998) Mechanistic study of cathodic electrodeposition of zinc oxide and zinc hydroxychloride films from oxygenated aqueous zinc chloride solutions. J Electrochem Soc 145:864-874
10. Elias J, Tena-Zaera R, Lévy-Clément C (2007) Electrodeposition of ZnO nanowires with controlled dimensions for photovoltaic applications: role of buffer layer. Thin Solid Films 515:8553-8557
11. Pauporté T, Bataille G, Joulaud L, Vermersch FJ (2010) Well-aligned ZnO nanowire arrays prepared by seed-layer-free electrodeposition and their Cassie-Wenzel transition after hydrophobization. J Phys Chem C 114:194-202
12. Pauporté T, Jouanno E, Pellé F, Viana B, Aschehoug P (2009) Key growth parameters for the electrodeposition of ZnO films with an intense UV-light emission at room temperature. J Phys Chem C 113:10422-10431
13. Sanchez S, Salazar R, Lévy-Clément C, Ivanova V (2011) ZnO buffer layers and nanowires electrodeposition for extremely thin absorber solar cells. ECS Trans 33:183-190
14. Salazar R, Delamoreanu A, Lévy-Clément C, Ivanova V (2011) ZnO/CdTe and ZnO/CdS core-shell nanowire arrays for extremely thin absorber solar cells. Energy Procedia 10:122-127
15. Salazar R, Sanchez S, Delamoreanu A, Lévy-Clément C, Ivanova V (2011) ZnO nanowire arrays sensitized with different absorber materials for fabrication of nanostructured solar cells. ECS Trans 41:119-128
16. Sanchez S, Berson S, Guillerez S, Lévy-Clément C, Ivanova V (2012) Toward highstability inverted polymer solar cells with an electrodeposited ZnO electron transporting layer. Adv Energy Mater 2:541-545
17. Salazar R, Lévy-Clément C, Ivanova V (2012) Galvanostatic deposition of ZnO thin films. Electrochim Acta 78:547-556
18. O'Regan B, Schwartz DT, Zakeeruddin SM, Grätzel M (2000) Electrodeposited nanocomposite n-pheterojunctions for solidstate dyesensitized photovoltaics. Adv Mater 12:1263-1267
19. Lévy-Clément C, Tena-Zaera R, Ryan MA, Katty A, Hodes G (2005) CdSe-sensitized p-CuSCN/nanowire n-ZnO heterojunctions. Adv Mater 17:1512-1515
20. Tennakone K, Kumarasinghe AR, Sirimanne PM, Kumara GRRA (1995) Deposition of thin polycrystalline films of cuprous thiocyanate on conducting glass and photoelectrochemical dye-sensitization. Thin Solid Films 261:307-310
21. Wu W, Jin Z, Hua Z, Fu Y, Qiu J (2005) Growth mechanisms of CuSCN films electrodeposited on ITO in EDTA-chelated copper(II) and KSCN aqueous solution. Electrochim Acta 50:2343-2349
22. Ni Y, Jin Z, Fu Y (2007) Electrodeposition of ptype CuSCN thin films by a new aqueous electrolyte with triethanolamine chelation. J Am Ceram Soc 90:2966-2973
23. Kamiya K, Hashimoto K, Nakanishi S (2012) Acceleration effect of adsorbed thiocyanate ions on electrodeposition of CuSCN, causing spontaneous electrochemical oscillation. Chem Phys Lett 530:77-80
24. Engelhardt R, Könenkamp R (2001) Electrodeposition of compound semiconductors in polymer channels of 100 nm diameter. J Appl Phys 90:4287-4289
25. Chen J, Könenkamp R (2003) Vertical nanowire transistor in flexible polymer foil. App Phys Lett 82:4782-4784
26. Chappaz-Gillot C, Salazar R, Berson S, Ivanova V (2012) Room temperature template-free electrodeposition of CuSCN nanowires. Electrochem Commun 24:1-4
27. Milchev A (2002) Electrocrystallization: Fundamentals of Nucleation and Growth. Kluwer, London