Monodispersed ZnO Nanoparticles and Their Use in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesised in ethylene glycol medium using zinc acetate and sodium hydroxide at room temperature through ultrasonic treatment. The monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, TEM, SEM, and optical spectroscopy. The results indicate that ZnO s...

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Autores principales: Patidar, Dinesh, Kaswan, Anusaiya, Saxena, N. S., Sharma, Kananbala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24319352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/260521
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author Patidar, Dinesh
Kaswan, Anusaiya
Saxena, N. S.
Sharma, Kananbala
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description Monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesised in ethylene glycol medium using zinc acetate and sodium hydroxide at room temperature through ultrasonic treatment. The monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, TEM, SEM, and optical spectroscopy. The results indicate that ZnO shows the hexagonal wurtzite structure having 8 nm average particle size with the band gap of 3.93 eV. ZnO nanoparticles blended with P3HT show the improvement in the interchains and intrachains ordering as compared to pure P3HT. The power conversion efficiency of P3HT/ZnO solar cell is found to be 0.88%, which is comparable with the result obtained by other researchers.
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spelling pubmed-38441772013-12-08 Monodispersed ZnO Nanoparticles and Their Use in Heterojunction Solar Cell Patidar, Dinesh Kaswan, Anusaiya Saxena, N. S. Sharma, Kananbala ScientificWorldJournal Research Article Monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesised in ethylene glycol medium using zinc acetate and sodium hydroxide at room temperature through ultrasonic treatment. The monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, TEM, SEM, and optical spectroscopy. The results indicate that ZnO shows the hexagonal wurtzite structure having 8 nm average particle size with the band gap of 3.93 eV. ZnO nanoparticles blended with P3HT show the improvement in the interchains and intrachains ordering as compared to pure P3HT. The power conversion efficiency of P3HT/ZnO solar cell is found to be 0.88%, which is comparable with the result obtained by other researchers. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3844177/ /pubmed/24319352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/260521 Text en Copyright © 2013 Dinesh Patidar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Monodispersed ZnO Nanoparticles and Their Use in Heterojunction Solar Cell
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title_fullStr Monodispersed ZnO Nanoparticles and Their Use in Heterojunction Solar Cell
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title_short Monodispersed ZnO Nanoparticles and Their Use in Heterojunction Solar Cell
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24319352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/260521
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