Structural and Electrical Specification of ZrO2Nano Thin Film Prepared by PLD

Zirconium dioxide was prepared as a thin film by using pulse laser deposition (PLD).Subsequently, the films had been thermally treated by annealing process at temperature 450 oC. The structural and electrical parameters of thin films were investigated. As-deposited films were amorphous and had a large surface density of ablated particles. The Annealing process resulted change the phase from amorphous to polycrystalline. The X-ray diffraction of all these films has a polycrystalline structure with two different phases named tetragonal and monoclinic. Hall measurements indicate that the charge carriers of all these films were p-type. In addition, the Hall coefficient suffers some change with thin film thickness. The AC results measured showed the films have resistance and capacitance properties. The AC conduction is dominated by hole cattier.

PANI Thin Films for Solar Cells

After the breakthrough of conducting polymers, an incredible interest has been paid to integrate them in electronic component fabrication as an alternative to metals. Polyaniline is the most extensively studied material due to the ease of synthesis, better environmental stability, and enormous scope to modify its properties for solar cell applications. The electrical conductivity of PANI can be altered according to the need for the application where electronic devices made of conducting polymer composites are significantly dependent on the dielectric properties of the materials. Therefore, this chapter has been dedicated to the low-frequency AC conduction and dielectric studies of conducting PANI followed by having PANI thin films as efficient donor or acceptor bulk heterojunction layer to the hybrid solar cells.