DSSC (dye-sensitized solar cell) is a third-generation photovoltaic technology that can convert energy into electric current using photoelectrochemical mechanism. Photoelectrode one of the significant elements in DSSC, where photoexcited electrons are generated, and serves as an electron transport medium. Anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) often used photoelectrode material because its excellent p...

Doping limits, band gaps, work functions and energy band alignments of undoped and donor-doped transparent conducting oxides Zn₀, In₂O₃, and SnO₂ as accessed by X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS/UPS) are summarized and compared. The presented collection provides an extensive data set of technologically relevant electronic properties of photovoltaic transparent electrode mate...

The interface formation between epitaxial CuInSe2(112) films and ZnO deposited by metal-organic MBE is investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy. Reaction of diethyl-zinc with CuInSe2 leads to the formation of an intrinsic ZnSe layer and copper-depletion of the interface. This is associated with Zn doping of the chalcopyrite surface and a Fermi level shift towards the conduction band. The impl...

We report first principles calculations demonstrating a dual-surfactant effect of Sb and H on enhanced Zn, Mg, Be and Cd incorporation in organometallic vapor phase epitaxially grown GaP films. The combined effects of Sb and H lower significantly the film doping energy during the epitaxial growth of all the p-type dopants studied, while neither Sb nor H can work alone as effectively. The role o...

Co2+ & Er3+ co-doped ZnO nanocrystals were synthesized by the hydrothermal method at 180°C and pH= 12 for 48 h. Powder XRD patterns indicate that the Zn1-2xErxCoxO crystals (0.00<x≤0.035) are isostructural with ZnO. The cell parameters increase for Er3+ and Co2+ upon increasing the dopant content (x). SEM images show that doping of Er3+ and Co2+ into the sites of Zn2+ does not change the morpho...

Abstract The effects of transition metal (Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) doping on the stability, electronic structure optical properties ? -Ga 2 O 3 have been studied using GGA + U. results show that U value can correct strong interaction d-layer, causing orbital hybridization affecting position number impurity energy levels. It move conduction band to higher levels weaken role Ga-...

We developed a novel approach to synthesize phosphorus (P)-doped ZnO nanowires by directly decomposing zinc phosphate powder. The samples were demonstrated to be P-doped ZnO nanowires by using scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction spectra, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, energy dispersive spectrum, Raman spectra and photoluminescence...

The Zintl compound Ca5Al2Sb6 is a promising thermoelectric material with exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivity resulting from its complex crystal structure. In common with the Al analogue, Ca5In2Sb6 is naturally an intrinsic semiconductor with a low p-type carrier concentration. Here, we improve the thermoelectric properties of Ca5In2Sb6 by substituting Zn 2+ on the In site. With incre...

In the present study, series of Zn incorporated calcium sulfate bone cements, with different amounts of doped Zn(0, 0.74, 1.97, 3.05, 4.21 wt %) were prepared by mixing a calcium sulfate hemihydrate powder and solutions of zinc sulfate, and the effect of zinc-doping on some physical, physico-chemical, and biological properties of the cements were investigated. Pure calcium sulfate cement was al...

In this work ternary CdZnS thin films were prepared by chemical bath deposition by doping CdS with different concentrations of Zn ions. The chemical bath comprised of cadmium nitrate [Cd(NO3)2], as a source of Cd 2+, zinc nitrate [ZnNO3)2]as source of Zn 2+ , thiourea [(NH2)2CS] as a source of sulphide ions [S 2]in the presence of ammonia [NH3] as a complexing agent. The competition mechanisms ...