Lougen M. Chalabi, Aicha Loucif, Anwar Q. Alanazi, Sultan M. Alenzi, Abdulrahman Albadri
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Abstract
In this study, we present a novel approach to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by exploring the synergistic effects of ultraviolet (UV) light and magnetic field (MF) exposure on the properties of ZnO thin films. These films serve as the electron transport layer (ETL) in PSCs. The ZnO thin were synthesized via a dip coating method. During the deposition process, the films were subjected to UV light (ZnO:UV), magnetic field (ZnO:MF), and a combination of UV and MF (ZnO:(UV + MF)) treatments. Our findings demonstrate that the ZnO:(UV + MF) film has an average transparency of 92% in the visible region, a high degree of crystallinity, and a broadened optical bandgap (3.69 eV). The current density–voltage characteristics of the four fabricated devices, using the untreated and treated ZnO thin films as ETLs, revealed an efficiency of approximately 10.80% when using ZnO:(UV + MF) as the ETL, surpassing the efficiency of 7.31% observed for the device with untreated ZnO ETL.
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The Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics is an established refereed companion to the Journal of Materials Science. It publishes papers on materials and their applications in modern electronics, covering the ground between fundamental science, such as semiconductor physics, and work concerned specifically with applications. It explores the growth and preparation of new materials, as well as their processing, fabrication, bonding and encapsulation, together with the reliability, failure analysis, quality assurance and characterization related to the whole range of applications in electronics. The Journal presents papers in newly developing fields such as low dimensional structures and devices, optoelectronics including III-V compounds, glasses and linear/non-linear crystal materials and lasers, high Tc superconductors, conducting polymers, thick film materials and new contact technologies, as well as the established electronics device and circuit materials.