Electrical and Optical Properties of CuO-Cu<sub>2</sub>O Phase Mixture for Solar Cell Applications

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Abstract

CuO and Cu2O both being direct bandgap material and having high absorption co-efficient, have potential application for fabrication of solar cell. These two materials have been separately used as an active layer in solar cell manufacturing. But using different ratios of CuO and Cu2O phase content can bring variance in absorbance which can present new and diverse aspect in solar cell fabrication with added efficiency. This research has synthesized Cu2O–CuO nanocomposites using a hydrothermal technique and characterized the structural, optical, and electrical properties of phase mixture of CuO and Cu2O using X-rAY diffraction (XRD), Raman, UV-VIS, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and 4-probe resistance measurement techniques. Also after the qualitative study of the phase mixture, this research targets to fabricate a solar cell using the CuO+Cu2O phase mixture with the optimum ratio. The result obtained from this research will be discussed in this presentation.

*National Science Foundation

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Presenters

  • Rifat Ara Shams

    • Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Missouri State University

Authors

  • Rifat Ara Shams

    • Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Missouri State University

  • Sajal Islam

    • Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Missouri State University

  • Ariful Haque

    • Materials, Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
    • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Material Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
    • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering And Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

  • M.F.N. Taufique

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  • Kartik Ghosh

    • Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Missouri State University
    • Department of Physics, Astronomy and Material Science, MIssouri State University, 921 S John Q Hammons Pkwy, Springfield, MO 65897, USA
    • Missouri State Univ