Study and improvement of aluminium doped ZnO thin films: Limits and advantages

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 109, Issue , 2013, Pages 117-124

  Aragones, Albert C ^a,b,c   Palacios Padros, A ^a,b   Caballero Briones, F ^a,c   Sanz, Fausto ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

AZO films; Burstein Moss effect; Electrodeposition; Photocurrent response; Thin film solar cells; Transparent conductive oxides

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMORPHOUS FILMS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENERGY GAP; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL FILMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

AZO FILMS; BURSTEIN-MOSS EFFECTS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL BATH; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES;

OXIDE FILMS;

EID: 84881165741     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.07.053     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. K.P. Musselman, A. Marin, A. Wisnet, C. Scheu, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, L.S.Mende, Photovoltaics, a novel buffering technique for aqueous processing ofzinc oxide nanostructures and interfaces, and corresponding improvement of Electrodeposited ZnO-Cu2O photovoltaics, Advanced Functional Materials 212011 573.
2. D. Pradhan, K.T. Leung, Controlled growth of two-Dimensional and one-Dimensional ZnO nanostructures on indium tin oxide coated glass by directelectrodeposition, Langmuir 24 2008 9707.
3. B. Xue, Y. Liang, L. Donglai, N. Eryong, S. Congli, F. Huanhuan, X. Jingjing, J. Yong,J. Zhifeng, S. Xiaosong, Electrodeposition from ZnO nano-Rods to nano-Sheetswith only zinc nitrate electrolyte and its photoluminescence, Applied SurfaceScience 257 2011 10317.
4. O. Lupan, V.M. Guérin, I.M. Tiginyanu, V.V. Ursaki, L. Chowc, H. Heinrich,T. Pauporté, Well-Aligned arrays of vertically oriented ZnO nanowires elec-Trodeposited on ITO-Coated glass and their integration in dye sensitized solarcells, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 211 201065.
5. D. Chu, T. Hamada, K. Kato, Y. Masuda, Growth and electrical properties of ZnOfilms prepared by chemical bath deposition method, Physical Status Solidi A206 2009 718.
6. S. Baruah, J. Dutta, Hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanostructures, Science andTechnology of Advanced Materials 10 2009 1.
7. S. O?Brien, M.G. Nolan, M. Çopuroglu, J.A. Hamilton, I. Povey, L. Pereira, R.Martins, E. Fortunato, M. Pemble, Zinc oxide thin films: Characterization andpotential applications, Thin Solid Films 518 2010 4515.
8. Y. Yang, et al., Pyroelectric nanogenerators for harvesting thermoelectricenergy, Nano Letters 12 2012 2833.
9. Y. Chan, et al., The toxic effects and mechanisms of CuO and ZnO nanoparticles,Materials 5 2012 2850.
10. A. Palacios-Padrós, F. Caballero-Briones, F. Sanz, Enhancement in as-GrownCuInSe2film microstructure by a three potential pulsed electrodepositionmethod, Electrochemistry Communications 12 2010 1025.
11. M. Chen, Z.L. Pei, X. Wang, C. Sun, L.S. Wen, Structural, electrical, and opticalproperties of transparent conductive oxide ZnO:Al films prepared by dc mag-Netron reactive sputtering, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 192001 963.
12. J.M. Cho, J.K. Song, S.M. Park, Characterization of ZnO nanoparticles grown bylaser ablation of a Zn target in neat water, Bulletin of the Korean ChemicalSociety 30 2009 1616.
13. L. Znaidi, Sol-Gel-Deposited ZnO thin films: A review, Materials Science andEngineering B 174 2010 18.
14. A.I. Inamdar, S.H. Mujawar, S.R. Barman, P.N. Bhosale, P.S. Patil, The effect ofbath temperature on the electrodeposition of zinc oxide thin films via an acetatemedium, Semiconductor Science and Technology 23 2008 085013.
15. G. She, et al., Electrodeposition of Al-Doped ZnO nanoflowers with enhancedphotocatalytic performance, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 122012 2756.
16. M.D. Reyes Tolosa, J. Orozco-Messana, L.C. Damonte, M.A. Hernandez-Fenollosa, ZnO nanostructured layers processing with morphology control bypulsed electrodeposition, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158 2011D452.
17. R. Tena-Zaera, J. Elias, C.L. Clément, C. Bekeny, T. Voss, I.M. Seró, J. Bisquert,Influence of the potassium chloride concentration on the physical propertiesof electrodeposited ZnO nanowire arrays, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 1122008 16318.
18. M. Rudolph, T. Loewenstein, E. Arndt, Y. Zimmermann, A. Neudeck,D. Schlettwein, Pulsed electrodeposition of porous ZnO on Ag-Coatedpolyamide filaments, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 20093313.
19. K.P. Musselman, A. Marin, A. Wisnet, C. Scheu, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, L.S.Mende, A novel buffering technique for aqueous processing of zinc oxidenanostructures and interfaces, and corresponding improvement of electrode-Posited ZnO-Cu2O photovoltaics, Advanced Functional Materials 21 2011573.
20. A. Turak, Dewetting stability of ITO surfaces in organic optoelectronic devices,in: Optoelectronics-Advanced Materials and Devices, 2013.
21. V. Srikant, D.R. Clarke, Optical absorption edge of ZnO thin films: The effect ofsubstrate, Journal of Applied Physics 81 1997 6357.
22. N. Benoit, A.C. Cruickshank, S. Schumann, R.D. Campo, T.S. Jones, S. Heutz, M.A.McLachlan, D.W. McComb, D.J. Rileya, M.P. Ryan, Electrodeposition of ZnO lay-Ers for photovoltaic applications: Controlling film thickness and orientation,Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 2011 12949.
23. M. Kemell, F. Dartigues, M. Ritala, M. Leskelä, Electrochemical preparation of Inand Al doped ZnO thin films for CuInSe2solar cells, Thin Solid Films 434 200320.
24. Musselman, et al., Macroscopically uniform electrodeposited ZnO films on con-Ducting glass by surface tension modification and consequent demonstrationof significantly improved p-N heterojunctions, Electrochimica Acta 56 20113758.
25. I.C.C.D, Powder Diffraction Files-2 Database, International Centre for DiffractionData, USA, 2000.
26. I.M. Seró, F.F. Santiago, B. Denier, J. Bisquert, Determination of carrier densityof ZnO nanowires by electrochemical techniques, Applied Physics Letters 892006 203117.
27. S. Otani, J. Katayama, H. Umemoto, M. Matsuoka, Effect of bath temperature onthe electrodeposition mechanism of zinc oxide film from zinc nitrate solution,Journal of the Electrochemical Society 153 2006 C551.
28. M. Izaki, T. Omi, Transparent zinc oxide films prepared by electrochemicalreaction, Applied Physics Letters 68 1996 2439.
29. I. Diez-Perez, C. Vericat, P. Gorostiza, F. Sanz, The iron passive film breakdown inchloride media may be mediated by transient chloride-Induced surface stateslocated within the band gap, Electrochemistry Communications 8 2006 627.
30. I. Diez-Perez, P. Gorostiza, F. Sanz, Electronic barriers in the iron oxide film gov-Ern its passivity and redox behavior: effect of electrode potential and solutionpH, Electrochemistry Communications 8 2006 1595.
31. H. Liu, G. Piret, B. Sieber, J. Laureyns, P. Roussel, W. Xu, R. Boukherroub, S.Szunerits, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of ZnO nanostructures,Electrochemistry Communications 11 2009 945.
32. S. Gledhill, A. Grimm, D. Greiner, W. Bohne, M.L. Steiner, C.H. Fischer, Dopinginduced structural and compositional changes in ZnO spray pyrolysed filmsand the effects on optical and electrical properties, Thin Solid Films 519 20114293.
33. B. Pejova, I. Grozdanov, Chemical deposition and characterization of Cu3Se2and CuSe thin films, Journal of Solid State Chemistry 158 2001 49.
34. T.P. Gujar, et al., Characterization of electrochemically grown crystallineCuInSe2thin films, Journal of the Electrochemical Society 156 2009 E8.
35. N.N. Greenwood, A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, Pergamon Pres,Oxford, 1984.
36. V. Srikant, D.R. Clarke, On the optical band gap of zinc oxide, Journal of AppliedPhysics 83 1998 5447.
37. E. Hammarberg, A.P. Schwab, C. Feldmann, Microwave-Assisted polyol synthe-Sis of aluminium-And indium-Doped ZnO nanocrystals, Journal of Colloid andInterface Science 334 2009 29.
38. R.J. Hong, X. Jiang, B. Szyszka, V. Sittinger, A.P. Flug, Applied Surface Science207 2003 341.
39. S. Moo Park, T. Ikegami, K. Ebihara, P.K. Shin, Structure and properties of trans-Parent conductive doped ZnO films by pulsed laser deposition, Applied SurfaceScience 253 2006 1522.
40. C. Major, A. Nemeth, G. Radnoczi, Zs. Czigany, M. Fried, Z. Labadi, I. Barsony,Optical and electrical characterization of aluminium doped ZnO layers, AppliedSurface Science 255 2009 8907.
41. I. Bonalde, E. Medina, M. Rodríguez, Urbach tail, disorder, and localized modesin ternary semiconductors, Physical Review B 69 2004 195201.
42. M. Caglar, S. Ilican, Y. Caglar, F. Yakuphanoglu, Electrical conductivity and opti-Cal properties of ZnO nanostructured thin film, Applied Surface Science 2552009 4491.
43. A. Iribarren, R. Castro-Rodríguez, V. Sosa, J.L. Pe?na, Band-Tail parame-Ter modeling in semiconductor materials, Physical Review B 58 19981907-1911. (Pubitemid 128490484)
44. S. Roy Morrison, Electrochemistry at Semiconductor and Oxidized Metal Elec-Trodes, Plenum Press, New York, 1984.
45. M.H. Mamat, M.Z. Sahdan, Z. Khusaimi, A. Zain Ahmed, S. Abdullah, M. Rusop,Influence of doping concentrations on the aluminum doped zinc oxide thinfilms properties for ultraviolet photoconductive sensor applications, OpticalMaterials 32 2010 696.