Effect of annealing temperature on the characteristics of the modified spray deposited Li-doped NiO films and their applications in transparent heterojunction diode

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 492-498

  Yang, Cheng Fu ^a   Wu, Chia Ching ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b KAO YUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Barrier height; Heterojunction; Ideality factor; Series resistance; Spray method; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ITO GLASS; LITHIUM; NICKEL; NITRATES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SUBSTRATES;

BARRIER HEIGHTS; IDEALITY FACTORS; SERIES RESISTANCES; SPRAY METHOD; TRANSMITTANCE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84908304727     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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