scholarly journals Revealing the impact of strontium doping on the optical, electronic and electrical properties of nanostructured 2H-CuFeO2 delafossite thin films

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 25686-25694
Author(s):  
Hamza Shaili ◽  
Elmehdi Salmani ◽  
Mustapha Beraich ◽  
Abderrahim Elhat ◽  
Mustapha Rouchdi ◽  
...  

Facile synthesis of the challenging 2H-CuFeO2 delafossite nanostructured thin films is reported, and the effect of Sr doping is revealed experimentally and theoretically.

Optik ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (18) ◽  
pp. 7319-7325 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bouhdjer ◽  
H. Saidi ◽  
A. Attaf ◽  
M.S. Aida ◽  
Mohamed JlassI ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borhan Aldeen Albiss ◽  
Hadeel S. Abdullah ◽  
Ahmad Mohammad Alsaad

Background: Nanostructured metal oxides have stimulated tremendous efforts for sightseeing glucose bio-sensing applications. They have been mostly investigated to fabricate highly sensitive, stabilized and ultrafast biosensors. Objective: Fabrication and characterization of glucose biosensors based on zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructured thin films modified by copper oxide (CuO) nanostructures in order to obtain stabilized ZnO:CuO biosensors with high sensitivity and fast response time. Methods: The components of the investigated biosensors are synthesized using the hydrothermal sol-gel method by dip-coating the sensing layer on indium tin oxide-coated glass substrates (ITO). The structural and electrical properties of the fabricated biosensors are investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and I-V characteristics. Results: SEM micrographs indicate that ZnO nanostructures exhibit an interconnected sheet-like patterns. These sheets are thin and distributed randomly on the ITO substrate. SEM images of ZnO:CuO reveal that the morphology of nanostructured thin films is composed of flower-like patterns. The XRD patterns of ZnO and modified ZnO:CuO thin films subjected to thermal annealing show that thin films exhibit a high degree of crystallinity with minor traces of impurity phases. The biosensors' key parameters are calculated and interpreted by measuring the I-V characteristics to elucidate the sensitivity and reproducibility of measurements performed for various glucose concentrations. Furthermore, the electric current response of ZnO and ZnO:CuO biosensors are found to be linear and quadratic as a functions of glucose concentration, respectively. The introduction of CuO into ZnO thin films leads to the enhancement of the sensitivity of the synthesized glucose biosensors for a high degree of precision in measuring glucose levels. Conclusion: Both sensors exhibit an average sensitivities in the range (from 1 to 10 µA mM−1 cm−2) with quite good reproducibility The unique property of this sensor is its ability to measure glucose concentrations at neutral pH conditions (i.e. pH = 7) using a simple, low cost and novel sensor design.


2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 00013
Author(s):  
Zineb Yamlahi Alami ◽  
Moez Salem ◽  
Mounir Gaidi ◽  
Jamal El khamkhami

This work reported on solar cell ZnO/PS heterojunction fabricated from Zinc nitrate with molar concentrations 0.05M and 0.2M using spray pyrolysis technique, to study the effect of high and low molar concentration of Zn precursor on structural, optical and electrical properties. The structural analyse showed that the obtained thin films deposited on glass substrate were polycrystalline with a hexagonal wurtzite structure and preferentially oriented along the c-axis direction, while structural properties enhanced with higher morality 0.2M. Roughness surface of ZnO/PS HJ increased widely with higher morality. Through I-V characteristics, the enhancement of electrical properties with higher molarity has been achieved. Isc get augment from 23mA/cm2, to 27mA/cm2, and Voc from 551mV to 554mV when molarity has taken values 0.05M and 0.2M respectively. Ideality factor has influenced by molarity variance too. The impact of solar irradiance G and temperature T on solar cell fabricated from 0.2M molarity has been investigated. The current density increased from 13.53 mA/cm2 to 27mA/cm2, the voltage from 525mV to 546mV, and the efficiency from 5.2% to 10.9% when the solar irradiance have increased from 500 to 1000W/m2. The temperature also influences on the solar cell behaviours, especially the voltage is enhanced by temperature increasing.


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