Fabrication and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis technique

Kamoun, N.; Bouzouita, H.; Rezig, B.

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2006.12.144

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“…The record efficiency for electrodeposited CZTS reached 8.0% [7][8], DC magnetron sputtering deposition [9] (efficiency for CZTS solar cells -10.4%) [10][11], spray pyrolysis deposition [12], sol-gel [13], the ink-print method with a conversion efficiency of 7.2% [14], mechanochemical [15], solvothermal [16] and so on.…”

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Properties and characterization of CZTS nanoparticles prepared by microwave heating irradiation

Grincienė¹,

Pakštas²,

Giraitis³

et al. 2018

chemija

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Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) nanoparticles suitable for solar cell absorber fabrication were synthesized by the microwave-assisted heating method. The influence of the reaction temperature, the temperature increase duration and post-annealing temperature on the chemical composition, crystallographic structure, phase purity and optical properties of CZTS nanocrystals has been investigated by means of XRD, Raman spectroscopy, scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopies (TEM), EDX and UV-Vis spectroscopies. The chemical composition of the CZTS nanoparticles synthesized at a temperature of 250°C and the temperature increase duration of 10 min are almost stoichiometric. The post-annealing process of CZTS has been investigated by means of the in situ XRD method. The results obtained point to the presence of a pure CZTS phase after annealing of the synthesized powder at a temperature of 550°C. The direct band gap energy (E g ) of the CZTS nanoparticles obtained depends on the post-annealing temperature and reaches nearly 1.5 eV at 550°C.

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Properties and characterization of CZTS nanoparticles prepared by microwave heating irradiation

Grincienė¹,

Pakštas²,

Giraitis³

et al. 2018

chemija

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“…In order to reduce a production technology cost, non-vacuum deposition methods such as spraying with pyrolysis, electrochemical deposition, chemical bath deposition, are used. These techniques have been developed in the production of semiconductor CIGS and CdTe thin films [14] and now can be used for the synthesis of CZTS [15][16][17][18]. Chemical bath deposition method allows easy regulation of the reagent concentrations and the deposition time.…”

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Synthetic pathway of a Cu2ZnSnS4 powder using low temperature annealing of nanostructured binary sulfides

Кожевникова¹,

Ворох²,

Гырдасова³

et al. 2017

Nanosystems: Phys. Chem. Math.

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Cost-effective route to quaternary Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 nanostructured powder fabrication was developed by utilizing a two-step approach. In the first stage, nanostructured binary sulfides Cu 2 S, ZnS, and SnS were synthesized by chemical bath deposition. In the second stage, ternary sulfide Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 was obtained by low-temperature annealing of binary sulfides' mixtures at 70 and 300• C. The compounds obtained on both stages were investigated by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, optical absorbance and Raman spectroscopy. On the basis of our findings, we established that Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 phase has already formed at 300• C. The synthetic pathway revealed in this work allows reducing the temperature of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 synthesis and as a result, offers the possibility of reducing the manufacturing costs.

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“…There are a number of papers that report the results of morphological, structural, compositional, functional group, and optical characterization of thin films. These films were characterized using range of characterization techniques such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (Lisco et al, 2015;Meng et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2001;Subramanian et al, 2001), scanning electron microscopy (Remigijus et al, 2012;Anuar et al, 2010;Yazid et al, 2009;Murilo and Lucia, 2016;Salh et al, 2017;Amira and Hager, 2017), X-ray diffraction (Zulkefly et al, 2010;Saravanan et al, 2008;Kamoun et al, 2007;Ho et al, 2010;Sall et al, 2017;Kiran et al, 2017;Anitha et al, 2017;Kassim et al, 2011), transmission electron microscopy (Chen et al, 2016;Mukherjee et al, 2016a;Gallardo et al, 2016;Ghribi et al, 2016), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (Jelas et al, 2011;Deshmukh et al, 2017;Khan et al, 2017;Bakiyaraj and Dhanasekaran, 2013), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (Sahuban et al, 2016;Dedova et al, 2005;Taj and Tayyaba, 2012), and UV-Visible spectrophotometer Thirumavalavan et al, 2015;Ersin and Suleyman, 2015;Ramesh et al, 2014).…”

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Atomic force microscopy studies on sulfur-, selenium- and tellurium-based metal chalcogenide thin films: A review

Soonmin¹

2017

Afr. J. Pure Appl. Chem.

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Sulfur, selenium and tellurium-based metal chalcogenide films have been prepared using various deposition methods. Investigation of morphological properties of the generated surface structures on chalcogenide thin films using atomic force microscopy technique was reported. The purpose of this work is to describe past important research findings that are related to atomic force microscopy technique.

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Fabrication and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis technique

Cited by 412 publications

References 10 publications

Properties and characterization of CZTS nanoparticles prepared by microwave heating irradiation

Properties and characterization of CZTS nanoparticles prepared by microwave heating irradiation

Synthetic pathway of a Cu2ZnSnS4 powder using low temperature annealing of nanostructured binary sulfides

Atomic force microscopy studies on sulfur-, selenium- and tellurium-based metal chalcogenide thin films: A review

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