標題: Effect of Oxygen on the Microstructural Growth and Physical Properties of Transparent Conducting Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Thin Films Fabricated by the Spray Pyrolysis Method
作者: Chantarat, N.
Chen, Yu-Wei
Hsu, Shu-Han
Lin, Chin-Ching
Chiang, Mei-Ching
Chen, San-Yuan
材料科學與工程學系
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
公開日期: 2013
摘要: We reported the fabrication of an FTO conducting thin film via a spray deposition method, which was used to investigate the effect of oxygen content in the carrier gas on deposited film morphology and properties. Using a carrier gas containing various O-2/N-2 concentrations (0%, 20%, 50%, 80%, and 100%) led to significant changes in the thickness, size, and shape of grain growth. The deposited films with 0-50% oxygen content yielded a low resistivity of similar to 10(-4) Omega-cm and a transmittance in the range of 76-96% at 550 nm. Furthermore, by changing the carrier gas concentration, the FTO films displayed different charge transport, recombination, and collection properties due to the surface and interfacial effects. These films with modified properties can be applied to dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Overall, the conversion efficiency of a solar cell based on a 0% O-2 sample was increased by approximately 2% from that of a 100% O-2 sample. The higher efficiency is mainly the result of the lower O-2 content, which minimized the grain boundaries (spacing) and improved the electron transport on the FTO film surface. (C) 2013 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/22434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/2.005309jss
ISSN: 2162-8769
DOI: 10.1149/2.005309jss
期刊: ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume: 2
Issue: 9
起始頁: Q131
結束頁: Q135
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