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Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content

DSSCs (dye-sensitized solar cells) have emerged as financially and technically viable solution to p-n junction photovoltaic systems. Copper oxide and zinc oxide P-type semiconductors are main operating materials utilized in solar cells. CuO is an appealing choice solar absorber because of its strong...

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Main Author: Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir
Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/14627/
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spelling my.umk.eprints.146272024-12-23T08:19:25Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/14627/ Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir DSSCs (dye-sensitized solar cells) have emerged as financially and technically viable solution to p-n junction photovoltaic systems. Copper oxide and zinc oxide P-type semiconductors are main operating materials utilized in solar cells. CuO is an appealing choice solar absorber because of its strong solar absorbance and small thermal emittance. This paper explains the solid-state reaction synthesis and characterization of semiconducting particles, specifically ZnO. The 'UV visible absorption spectra were used to investigate optical characteristics and band gap. According to XRD analysis, the CuO doping caused the lattice constants to shift to a certain amount. These findings reveal that the energy band gap reduces with increasing annealing temperature, which can be attributed to the samples' improved crystallinity and also increasing mol percentage of CuO also reducing band gap. Dopants can be used to tailor the band gap of CuO—ZnO 4.25-4.71 eV, 4.00-3.77 eV and 3.28-2.56 eV, respectively. Keywords: Dye-sensitized solar cells, Photovoltaic, Solid-state reaction, CuO, ZnO, Band gap. 2022 Undergraduate Final Project Report NonPeerReviewed Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir (2022) Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content. Final Year Project thesis, UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA KELANTAN. (Submitted)
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description DSSCs (dye-sensitized solar cells) have emerged as financially and technically viable solution to p-n junction photovoltaic systems. Copper oxide and zinc oxide P-type semiconductors are main operating materials utilized in solar cells. CuO is an appealing choice solar absorber because of its strong solar absorbance and small thermal emittance. This paper explains the solid-state reaction synthesis and characterization of semiconducting particles, specifically ZnO. The 'UV visible absorption spectra were used to investigate optical characteristics and band gap. According to XRD analysis, the CuO doping caused the lattice constants to shift to a certain amount. These findings reveal that the energy band gap reduces with increasing annealing temperature, which can be attributed to the samples' improved crystallinity and also increasing mol percentage of CuO also reducing band gap. Dopants can be used to tailor the band gap of CuO—ZnO 4.25-4.71 eV, 4.00-3.77 eV and 3.28-2.56 eV, respectively. Keywords: Dye-sensitized solar cells, Photovoltaic, Solid-state reaction, CuO, ZnO, Band gap.
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author Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir
spellingShingle Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir
Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
author_facet Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir
author_sort Nazira Binti Mohd Zahir
title Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
title_short Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
title_full Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
title_fullStr Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
title_full_unstemmed Synthesis And Characterization Of Cuo Doped Zno Composite Photovoltaic Thin Film: Effect Of Cuo Content
title_sort synthesis and characterization of cuo doped zno composite photovoltaic thin film: effect of cuo content
publishDate 2022
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/14627/
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