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Effect of pre-deposition annealing on physical properties of CZTSSe thin films deposed by RF-sputtering based on nanoparticles synthesized by solvothermal technique
This work aims to highlight the beneficial effect of annealing of Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) nanoparticles (NPs) on the properties of the obtained films by RF-magnetron sputtering at room temperature (RT) and at 200...
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Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2 Ingot Prepared by Direct Melting
CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2 (CIGS) ingots were prepared by reaction of high-purity elements in stoichiometric proportions. The direct melting of elements was carried out using an original and low-cost process. The structural...
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Effect of substrate type on RF magnetron sputtered CuInS2 thin films properties based on nanoparticles synthesized by solvothermal route
Stereometric and fractal analyses have been performed on the three-dimensional surface microtexture of the sputtered copper indium disulfide films on various substrates. The target used in the sputtering was m...
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Physical properties of metal-doped ZnO thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature
Transparent thin films of pure ZnO, Ca-doped ZnO (CZO), and Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) were deposited on glass by RF magnetron sputtering. The influence of calcium and gallium concentrations in zinc oxide (ZnO) films ...
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Towards an optical switching of memory effect in Au/TiO2/ITO/ZnO:Al/p-Si heterostructure based on nanoparticles
We have successfully realized a nonvolatile resistive memory structure by rf-magnetron sputtering technique using nanoparticles synthesized by sol–gel method. The resistive switching (RS) related to the Au/TiO2 S...
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A new procedure to synthesis of ZnS1−xSex nanoparticles by a facile solvothermal method
ZnS1−xSex alloy nanostructures have been successfully synthesized through a simple and effective solvothermal method. Crystal structure, morphology, and optical properties of prepared nanopowders were characteriz...
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Correction to: Thickness dependence of properties Ga-doped ZnO thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering
In the original version of this article reference (“Influence of, J. Alloy. Compd 695:697–703, 2017) was unfortunately missed and should have been included as proper citation of related work. In addition, the ...
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Synthesis and characterization of antimony doped tin oxide aerogel nanoparticles using a facile sol–gel method
High purity antimony doped tin oxide (ATO) aerogel nanoparticles with various concentrations of Sb have been successfully synthesized using modified sol–gel method. In this process, hydrolysis was slowly relea...
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Open AccessInfluence of fluorine do** on the microstructure, optical and electrical properties of SnO2 nanoparticles
Tin dioxide (SnO2) is one of the most promising functional semiconductor materials; it has stimulated considerable research interest for its wide applications such as optoelectronic devices and solar cells techno...
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Study of TiO2/ITO/ZnO:Al/p-Si photo-sensitive structure based on nanoparticles
By coupling sol–gel and RF sputtering techniques we have been fabricated a photo-sensitive structure: TiO2/ITO/ZnO:Al/p-Si. The electrical conduction shows a thermal assist tunneling process, involving a thermal ...
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Correlation between gap energy and photocatalytic efficiencies of nanocatalyst under solar irradiation conditions
The most commonly studied and best performing catalysts and catalyst/dopant pairs were used to obtain a panel representative of the response range reported in the literature. Experiments were conducted to asse...
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Thickness dependence of properties Ga-doped ZnO thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering
In this work, we studied gallium doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Ga) thin films deposited by rf-magnetron sputtering at room temperature using gallium doped nanocrystalline powder synthesized by sol–gel method. The effe...
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Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of the Si/ZnO/ZnO:Al Structure Deposited by RF-Magnetron Sputtering
The electrical transport properties of the structures of Si(p)/ZnO(i)/ZnO: Al(3%) and Si(p)/PS/ZnO(i)/ZnO: Al(3%) deposited by radio-frequency-magnetron sputtering were investigated and compared by using curre...
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Study and optimization of Al-doped ZnO thin films deposited on PEN substrates by RF-magnetron sputtering from nanopowders targets
In this study, we have used RF-magnetron sputtering to deposit Al-doped ZnO (AZO) nanostructures thin films on poly-ethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrates. The compacted AZO nanopowders with different Al conce...
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Influence of Substrate Temperature on the Properties of Nanostructured ZnO Thin Films Grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering
Transparent conducting thin films of ZnO:Ga (GZO) have been deposited onto glass substrates and were prepared by RF-magnetron sputtering from nanoparticles synthesized by the sol–gel method. The preheated subs...
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The properties of ZnS thin films prepared by rf-magnetron sputtering from nanoparticles synthesized by solvothermal/hydrothermal route
Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) has been proposed as a novel buffer layer, alternative to CdS for solar cell applications. ZnS thin films were deposited by rf-magnetron sputtering using, nanocrystalline powder synthesized...
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Study of gallium do** and substrate temperature effects on structural, electrical and optical properties of ZnO semiconductor layers
In the present study, zinc oxide doped gallium thin films (ZnO:Ga) at different percentage (0.0, 1.0, 3.0 and 5.0 at.%) were deposited on glass substrates by magnetron sputtering technique using nanocrystallin...
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Structural and electrical characterizations of ZnO:In/PS/Si heterojunction deposited by rf-magnetron sputtering
Indium doped zinc oxide (IZO) thin film has been deposited on p-type porous silicon (PS) substrate by rf-magnetron sputtering of IZO aerogel nanoparticles at room temperature to obtain n-IZO/PS/p-Si heterojunctio...
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Fabrication and electrical properties of Si/PS/ZnO:In solar cell deposited by rf-magnetron sputtering based on nanopowder target material
Indium doped zinc oxide (IZO) nanopowder synthesized by sol–gel method has been grown onto p type porous silicon substrate by rf-magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The obtained IZO thin films with a th...
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Influence of sputtering power on the properties of thin layers of GZO for photovoltaic applications
In the present work, we have deposited gallium doped zinc oxide thin films by magnetron sputtering technique based nanocrystalline particles elaborated by sol–gel method. In the first step, the nanoparticles w...