Amorphous-to-nanocrystalline transition in silicon thin films by hydrogen diluted silane using PE-CVD method

Author(s):  
Ashok Jadhavar ◽  
Vidya Doiphode ◽  
Ajinkya Bhorde ◽  
Yogesh Hase ◽  
Pratibha Shinde ◽  
...  

: Herein, we report effect of variation of hydrogen flow rate on properties of Si:H films synthesized using PE-CVD method. Raman spectroscopy analysis show increase in crystalline volume fraction and crystallite size implying that hydrogen flow in PECVD promote the growth of crystallinity in nc-Si:H films with an expense of reduction in deposition rate. FTIR spectroscopy analysis indicates that hydrogen content in the film increases with increase in hydrogen flow rate and hydrogen is predominantly incorporated in Si-H2 and (Si-H2)n bonding configuration. The optical band gap determined using E04 method and Tauc method (ETauc) show increasing trend with increase in hydrogen flow rate and E04 is found higher than ETauc over the entire range of hydrogen flow rate studied. We also found that the defect density and Urbach energy also increases with increase in hydrogen flow rate. Photosensitivity (Photo /Dark) decreases from  103 to  1 when hydrogen flow rate increased from 30 sccm to 100 sccm and can attributed to amorphous-to-nanocrystallization transition in Si:H films. The results obtained from the present study demonstrated that hydrogen flow rate is an important deposition parameter in PE-CVD to synthesize nc-Si:H films.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 061307
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Dimitrakellis ◽  
Eleftherios Amanatides ◽  
Dimitrios Mataras ◽  
Angelos G. Kalampounias ◽  
Nikolaos Spiliopoulos ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junsheng Jiao

Abstract The output voltage of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is usually changed with the temperature and hydrogen flow rate. Since the fuel cell can generate a wide range of voltages and currents at the terminals, as a consequence, a constant DC voltage and function cannot be maintained by itself as a DC voltage power supply source. To solve this problem, a simple SOFC electrochemical model is introduced to control the output voltage. The Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is used to control the output voltage of the DC-DC converter for maintaining the constant DC voltage when the temperature and hydrogen flow rate are changed. By the simulation results it can be seen that the SMC technique has improved the transient response and reduced the steady state error of DC voltage.


1990 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Magafas ◽  
D. Girginoudi ◽  
N. Georgoulas ◽  
A. Thanailakis

ABSTRACTThe dependence of chemical composition, structure and optoelectronic properties of sputtered a-SiC:H thin films on substrate temperature, Ts, and hydrogen flow rate has been studied. The films are amorphous for the growth conditions used in this work. The chemical composition of the alloys is very little influenced by the Ts, whereas the hydrogen content and the optical absorption coefficient depends strongly on Ts and hydrogen flow rate.


Author(s):  
Islam Ahmed ◽  
Ashwani K. Gupta

Main characteristics of gaseous yield from steam gasification have been investigated experimentally. Results of steam gasification have been compared to that of pyrolysis. The temperature range investigated were 600 to 1000°C in steps of 100°C. Results have also been obtained under pyrolysis conditions at same temperatures. For steam gasification runs, steam flow rate was kept constant at 8.0 gr./Min.. Investigated characteristics were evolution of syngas flow rate with time, hydrogen flow rate, chemical composition of syngas, energy yield and apparent thermal efficiency. Residuals from both processes were quantified and compared as well. Material destruction, hydrogen yield and energy yield is better with gasification as compared to pyrolysis. This advantage of the gasification process is attributed mainly to char gasification process. Char gasification is found to be more sensitive to the reactor temperature than pyrolysis. Pyrolysis can start at low temperatures of 400 °C; however char gasification starts at 700 °C. A partial overlap between gasification and pyrolysis exists and is presented here. This partial overlap increases with increase in temperature. As an example, at reactor temperature 800 °C this overlap represents around 27% of the char gasification process and almost 95% at reactor temperature 1000°C.


2015 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 697-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Senthil Kumar ◽  
M. Loganathan

Hydrogen is a zero emission alternative gaseous fuel generally used in internal combustion engine with single fuel or duel fuel mode. In this work the Hydrogen is introduced in inlet manifold in addition to main diesel fuel used in the engine. The different flow rate of hydrogen fuel is used in this work are from 2 lpm to 10 lpm at 2 bar pressure. Here the single cylinder, direct injection, diesel engine with 1500 rpm rated speed is used for test. In addition to hydrogen, the exhaust gas also introduced in the inlet manifold with various percentages namely 10% and 20%. The engine is loaded with eddy current dynamometer .The engine performance and emissions of various combination of hydrogen flow rate and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) were analyzed. The result showed that in 8 lpm hydrogen flow rate without EGR the BTE increased and BSFC decreased. At the same condition the HC, CO emissions reduced and NOx emission is increased. But NOx emission with 10% and 20% EGR is reduced.


2014 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 411-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alhassan Salami Tijani ◽  
Mohd Ariffuddin Haiyoon

The purpose of this manuscript is to analyze the effect of temperature and exchange current density on operating cell voltage, resistance and ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte. Equations related to mathematical models for PEM Electrolyzer based on a combination of thermodynamics fundamental and electrochemical relations of the well-known Butler-Volmer kinetic have been used to simulate the system. The result of this study shows a significant drop in membrane Ohmic resistance as the temperature decreases. In conclusion the best operation temperature that corresponds to lower voltage (1.82 V) is 80°C. At power density of about 9 W/ cm2, hydrogen flow rate of 3.5ml/min and 3.78 was observed at 40°C and 80°C respectively, this account for only about 7% increase hydrogen flow rate. These model results are found to agree well with previous published work.


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