Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed

Thin films have been used for more than a half century in making electronic devices, optical coatings, instrument hard coatings, and decorative parts. The thin film is a traditional well-established material technology. The transparent conducting oxide is a thin oxide film which possesses low resist...

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Main Author: Mohamed, Danial
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32342/1/32342.pdf
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description Thin films have been used for more than a half century in making electronic devices, optical coatings, instrument hard coatings, and decorative parts. The thin film is a traditional well-established material technology. The transparent conducting oxide is a thin oxide film which possesses low resistivity and high optical transmittance over 80%. Aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) is a promising transparent conducting oxide (TCO), which have the advantages of low material cost, low toxicity and chemical stability in reducing ambient over ITO. In this research work, Al-doped ZnO (AZO) films were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering with home-made ZnO targets. Thin AZo film which will be used in solar cell was fabricated on bare glass substrate by using AZO as the target. The parameter of sputtering process is the deposition time. SEM, XRD, AFM, UV-Vis are used to characterize the AZO films. The results indicate that the optimum condition is achieved when sputtering time is 45 minutes giving the good surface morphology, high crystallinity, low resistivity and high transmittance.
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:323422020-07-15T09:14:40Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32342/ Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed Mohamed, Danial Solar energy Thin films have been used for more than a half century in making electronic devices, optical coatings, instrument hard coatings, and decorative parts. The thin film is a traditional well-established material technology. The transparent conducting oxide is a thin oxide film which possesses low resistivity and high optical transmittance over 80%. Aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) is a promising transparent conducting oxide (TCO), which have the advantages of low material cost, low toxicity and chemical stability in reducing ambient over ITO. In this research work, Al-doped ZnO (AZO) films were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering with home-made ZnO targets. Thin AZo film which will be used in solar cell was fabricated on bare glass substrate by using AZO as the target. The parameter of sputtering process is the deposition time. SEM, XRD, AFM, UV-Vis are used to characterize the AZO films. The results indicate that the optimum condition is achieved when sputtering time is 45 minutes giving the good surface morphology, high crystallinity, low resistivity and high transmittance. 2010 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32342/1/32342.pdf Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed. (2010) Degree thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
spellingShingle Solar energy
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Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title_full Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title_fullStr Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title_full_unstemmed Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title_short Characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application / Danial Mohamed
title_sort characterization of thin film aluminum doped zinc oxide for solar cell application danial mohamed
topic Solar energy
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