A novel approach for the synthesis of tin antimony sulphide thin films for photovoltaic application
Alternative semiconductor materials to copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) is driven by the need to use less toxic and earth-abundant materials as an absorber layer in thin film solar cells. The ternary compounds based on Sn-Sb-S (TAS) com...
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my.utm.557432017-02-15T01:44:20Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55743/ A novel approach for the synthesis of tin antimony sulphide thin films for photovoltaic application Mod Ali, Noriah Ahmed, Rashid Ul Haq, Bakhtiar Shaari, Amiruddin Hussain, Rafaqat Goumri-Said, Souraya Q Science (General) Alternative semiconductor materials to copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) is driven by the need to use less toxic and earth-abundant materials as an absorber layer in thin film solar cells. The ternary compounds based on Sn-Sb-S (TAS) compositions are deemed to be a possible replacement of existing semiconductor materials due to their low processing cost and nontoxic elemental composition. In this study thin films of tin antimony sulphide (TAS) are deposited on glass substrate from tin sulphide and antimony sulphide binary precursors, without substrate heating, combinatorially in thermal vacuum chamber. The average thickness of the library obtained was 1.2µm as measured by quartz crystal monitor. The X-ray diffraction analyses measured by D-8 Discover diffractometer shows that the as deposited films were amorphous while the annealed films are poly crystalline. The maximum reflection was observed for the lattice plane (111) for SnSb2S4 and Sn2Sb2S5. The optical properties of the thin films were measured by ellipsometry while electrical properties were measured by photoconductivity spectrometer and four-probe technique. The band gap was varied with variation in elemental composition as well as annealing temperature between 1.6 and 2.7eV. It was observed that TAS exhibit bipolar conductivity at different annealing temperature. Elsevier 2015-03 Article PeerReviewed Mod Ali, Noriah and Ahmed, Rashid and Ul Haq, Bakhtiar and Shaari, Amiruddin and Hussain, Rafaqat and Goumri-Said, Souraya (2015) A novel approach for the synthesis of tin antimony sulphide thin films for photovoltaic application. Solar Energy, 113 . pp. 25-33. ISSN 0038-092X http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2014.12.021 DOI:10.1016/j.solener.2014.12.021 |
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Alternative semiconductor materials to copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) is driven by the need to use less toxic and earth-abundant materials as an absorber layer in thin film solar cells. The ternary compounds based on Sn-Sb-S (TAS) compositions are deemed to be a possible replacement of existing semiconductor materials due to their low processing cost and nontoxic elemental composition. In this study thin films of tin antimony sulphide (TAS) are deposited on glass substrate from tin sulphide and antimony sulphide binary precursors, without substrate heating, combinatorially in thermal vacuum chamber. The average thickness of the library obtained was 1.2µm as measured by quartz crystal monitor. The X-ray diffraction analyses measured by D-8 Discover diffractometer shows that the as deposited films were amorphous while the annealed films are poly crystalline. The maximum reflection was observed for the lattice plane (111) for SnSb2S4 and Sn2Sb2S5. The optical properties of the thin films were measured by ellipsometry while electrical properties were measured by photoconductivity spectrometer and four-probe technique. The band gap was varied with variation in elemental composition as well as annealing temperature between 1.6 and 2.7eV. It was observed that TAS exhibit bipolar conductivity at different annealing temperature. |
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