ZnO nanostructured materials for emerging solar cell applications

Wibowo, Arie; Marsudi, Maradhana Agung; Amal, Muhamad Ikhlasul; Ananda, Muhammad Bagas; Stephanie, Ruth; Ardy, Husaini; Diguna, Lina Jaya

doi:10.1039/d0ra07689a

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“…Zinc oxide composite materials with outstanding properties, including wide bandgap, outstanding electron mobility, high electron affinity, good stability, and great conductivity, have been recognized as ideal materials in the solar cell. In addition, ZnO can be coupled with materials with smaller energy gaps in order to absorb light in the visible region, for example, semiconductors with a narrow band gap, organic polymeric materials, and dye sensitizers [73].…”

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“…Also, they can use as photogenerated hole-blocking to defeat the charge recombination in perovskite films. Regarding the key role of ZnO composites in the photovoltaic performance of PSCs as the ETM layer, it is important to control their specification, especially the morphology, trap states, energy level alignment, and interfacial characteristics [73].…”

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A review on zinc oxide composites for energy storage applications: solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors

Bui

Kumar²,

Alinaghibeigi

et al. 2021

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Zinc oxide (ZnO) is used for various purposes because of its special physico-chemical properties, including large band gap, high binding energy of exciton, nontoxicity, high chemical and thermal stability, large piezoelectric constants, and wurtzite crystal structure with various and widespread applications in electronics, optoelectronics, biochemical sensing, biomedical, and energy-saving systems. This review mainly aimed to present the recent improvement in ZnO-based composite materials with utilization in energy storage systems with a specific focus on lithium-ion batteries, dye-sensitized solar cells, and supercapacitors. The first part of this paper looks at the structure and properties of ZnO and then describes some of the most common synthesizing methods of ZnO composites, including electrochemical, chemical, solvo/hydrothermal, and physical deposition methods. Finally, the recent advancement of ZnO-based composite materials applied in energy storage systems was discussed.

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A review on zinc oxide composites for energy storage applications: solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors

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Alinaghibeigi

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“…In the synthesis process, the volume ratio between organic solvents and water plays an important role in developing diverse shapes enclosed by tunable facets. Recently, Arie Wibowo 28 reviewed the progress of ZnO nanostructures in emerging solar cell applications including dye sensitized solar cells, quantum dot sensitized solar cells, organic and inorganic solar cells and hybrid solar cells. The excellent stability, nontoxicity, proper morphological controllability, low production cost, good reproducibility, and high electron mobility of ZnO will boost their potential application in the emerging photovoltaic market.…”

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Solvent assisted evolution and growth mechanism of zero to three dimensional ZnO nanostructures for dye sensitized solar cell applications

Ramya

Nideep

Nampoori

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We report the structural engineering of ZnO nanostructures by a consistent solution method using distinct solvents such as ethylene glycol, 1-butanol, acetic acid and water. The growth kinetics are found to depend strongly on the physicochemical properties of the solvent and zeta potential of the colloidal solution. Furthermore, the resulting nanostructures as a photoanode material, displayed a prominent structure dependent property in determining the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The fabricated solar cell with ZnO nanostructures based photoanode exhibited improved conversion efficiency. Moreover, the nanoflower based DSSCs showed a higher conversion efficiency of 4.1% compared to the other structures. The excellent performance of ZnO nanoflower is attributed to its better light-harvesting ability and increased resistance to charge-recombination. Therefore ZnO nanostructures can be a promising alternative for TiO2 in DSSCs. These findings provide new insight into the simple, low cost and consistent synthetic strategies for ZnO nanostructures and its outstanding performance as a photoanode material in DSSCs.

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“…[19][20][21][22][23] For the metal oxide-based ECBLs, zinc oxide (ZnO) precursor routes were mostly employed because of suitable work function of ZnO ( � 4.3 eV) for electron collection and wet-coating process using precursor solutions at room temperature. [24][25][26][27] However, thermal annealing processes at high temperatures (up to 200°C) were applied for securing high electron mobility and good film quality. [28,29] This high-temperature process is a critical drawback in the advantageous roll-to-roll processes using flexible substrates.…”

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Performance and Stability of Polymer : Nonfullerene Solar Cells with 100 °C‐Annealed Electron‐Collecting Combination Layers

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Inverted-type organic solar cells, fabricated with low-temperature-processed combination layers of hybrid electron-collecting buffer layers (ECBLs) consisting of zinc oxide (ZnO) and poly (2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (PEOz) and additional PEOz interlayers, showed improved performance and stability. The ZnO : PEOz precursor films with various PEOz compositions (0-12 wt %) were prepared and thermally treated at 100°C, leading to the ECBLs on which the PEOz interlayers were subsequently deposited before coating of polymer : nonfullerene bulk hetero-junction layers. Results showed that the power conversion efficiency of solar cells reached approximately 9.38 and 10.11 % (average) in case of the ZnO/PEOz and ZnO : PEOz(6 wt % PEOz)/ PEOz combination layers, respectively, despite the low-temperature thermal annealing process. A continuous irradiation test for 12 h under one sun condition (air mass 1.5G, 100 mW cm À 2 ) disclosed that the devices with the ZnO : PEOz(6 wt % PEOz)/ PEOz combination layers were more stable than those with the ZnO/PEOz layers.

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ZnO nanostructured materials for emerging solar cell applications

Abstract: Zinc oxide (ZnO) has been considered as one of the potential materials in solar cell applications, owing to its relatively high conductivity, electron mobility, stability against photo-corrosion and availability at low-cost.

Cited by 244 publications

References 212 publications

A review on zinc oxide composites for energy storage applications: solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors

A review on zinc oxide composites for energy storage applications: solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors

Solvent assisted evolution and growth mechanism of zero to three dimensional ZnO nanostructures for dye sensitized solar cell applications

Performance and Stability of Polymer : Nonfullerene Solar Cells with 100 °C‐Annealed Electron‐Collecting Combination Layers

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