Characterization of Phosphorus-Doped Amorphous Carbon and Construction of n-Carbon/p-Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Electrical and magnetic properties of electrodeposited nickel incorporated diamond-like carbon thin films

“…The electrical properties of DLC can appropriately be varied from insulating to highly conducting state with efficient incorporation of metals in it [21,25,26]. This variability renders DLC, more precisely metal-DLC to be potentially attractive and wonderful material for electronic applications.…”

“…Thus with efficient doping and incorporation of metals in DLC, its electrical properties can be appropriately varied from insulating to highly conducting state. Some researchers have shown that the conductivity of the DLC film varies with the amount of the incorporated metals in it [21,22]. Omer et al [23,24] investigated the effects of iodine doping on the electrical and optical properties of diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films grown by microwave surface wave plasma chemical vapor deposition at low temperature.…”

“…The microstructure of DLC is complicated due to the presence of both and states; also the availability of large density of defect states in the optical band gap has been a limiting factor in its effective use in device application [21,25,26]. Such electronic properties render DLC, more precisely metal-DLC to be potentially attractive material for electronic and optoelectronic applications.…”

Effect of nitrogen on physical and optical properties of carbon films prepared by microwave plasma CVD for photovoltaic solar cells

“…)/microwave (MW) plasma CVD and plasma-enhanced CVD involve the decomposition of hydrocarbon source gasses, such as methane (CH 4 ), Ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) and Acetylene (C 2 H 2 ). The gaseous phase of carbon source used in CVD has the advantage of better control of chemical composition and bonding structure in thin films over the solid source used in the physical deposition system (Rusop et al, 2003). and broadened in the down stream region due to particles' diffusion.…”

Study of pulsed laser-deposited phosphorus-doped carbon/p-silicon photovoltaic cell

“…Graphite is the most common solid target used in physical vapour deposition methods for carbon films. We have been working on semiconducting carbon, obtained from camphor (C 10 H 16 O), a natural source [1,4,5]. The starting precursor, C 10 H 16 O, has both sp 2 and sp 3 hybridized bonds while graphite has 100% sp 2 bonded structure.…”