Roughness-based monitoring of transparency and conductivity in boron-doped ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis

Effect of boron doping on the structural, optical and electrical properties of ZnO nanoparticles produced by the hydrothermal method

“…The boron atoms act as nucleation centers in the vacancy sites of ZnO. Therefore B atoms could be cause a decrease the crystallite size [24]. The chemical composition of Zn 1-x B x O nanopowders were investigated by EDX spectroscopy.…”

ZnO@ZIF-8: Gas sensitive core-shell hetero-structures show reduced cross-sensitivity to humidity

“…As this experiment was carried out with one and the same sensor chip before and after ZIF-8 coating and ZIF-8 itself was found to be a very good electrical insulator [52,53], this considerable increase of conductance is explained by the increase of the electron density in the conduction band of the ZnO due to the ZIF-8 coating which is assumed to be correlated with the decrease of the adsorption site fractional coverage of Oads surface states as a consequence of the change of the overall number of surface/interface states of the ZnO due to the degradation of the metal oxide during the sacrificial formation of the ZIF-8 shell. This hypothetical interpretation of the experimental results was not proven further in this study as the observed effects of adsorbed organic molecules or the surface roughness on the band gap of the ZnO-based semiconductors are well known [54][55][56].…”

Band gap modification of spray pyrolysed ZnS films by doping and thermal annealing

“…Due to decrease in grain size after boron doping hydrophilicity was decreased. One can use these highly conducting, transparent, high surface roughness and self-textured Zn1-xBxO films, as a transparent conducting working electrode, in solar cells by assuming most of the incident solar radiation will be scattered and thereby, the solar cell efficiency will be improved [9].…”