Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV14)
Publication date: 1st March 2014
ZnO/polymer heterojunction has been studied by many groups for its potential application in solar cell, LED, UV photodetection and other applications. However, there are few studies on ZnO/polymer heterojunction by synthesizing ZnO using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Comparing with other methods, PLD has the advantage of congruent evaporation, and being able to grow high quality thin films at relatively low temperature. In our previous work in CdTe/Cds based thin films we have seen correlations between the pulsed laser deposition parameters and the electrical performance of the thin film solar cells.
In this work, we report our studies on pulsed-laser-deposited (PLD) ZnO/PEDOT:PSS heterojunction, and its potential application as solar cells. We studied how the performance of ZnO/polymer heterojunction depends on the pulse-laser deposition conditions of ZnO, such as deposition temperature, background pressure of oxygen, and ZnO film thickness. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy were used to characterize the pulsed-laser-deposited (PLD) ZnO film. The correlation between the solar cell electrical performance and the pulsed laser deposition conditions will be discussed.