Article Dans Une Revue Advanced Engineering Materials Année : 2025

Impact of Sputtered AZO Seed Layer Thickness on Hydrothermally Grown ZnO Nanowires Properties for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

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Understanding the impact of the aluminum zinc oxide (AZO) seed layer thickness on zinc oxide nanowires (ZnO NWs) growth is decisive in attaining high‐quality NWs with higher transparency and without cracking issues when using flexible substrates, especially for optoelectronic applications. Therefore, herein, ZnO NWs have been grown on various thicknesses of AZO films deposited onto flexible substrates (PET, PET/ITO (60 Ω sq −1 ) and (200 Ω sq −1 )) through a simple, low‐temperature hydrothermal growth process. Based on AZO layer thickness, structural, optical, morphological, and topographical properties have been systematically investigated. The results demonstrate that 1) thicker AZO films (≈250 nm) increase the crystallinity of the ZnO NWs than thinner AZO films (≈200 and 100 nm). 2) ZnO NWs on the thicker AZO films with different ITO grades (60 or 200 Ω sq −1 ) provide an optical bandgap value of 3.24–3.27 eV and offer good transmittance (>80%) in the visible range. 3) The AZO film thickness strongly influences ZnO NWs growth, especially NWs’ average diameter and density. 4) Annealing the samples at 100 °C after NW growth is pointless. Overall, the findings demonstrate efficient tuning of the ZnO NW properties that exhibit promising potentiality for perovskite solar cells, which have also been preliminarily tested.
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hal-04897648 , version 1 (20-01-2025)

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Karthick Sekar, Johann Bouclé, Raphaël Doineau, Souhir Azzaz, Bruno Schmaltz, et al.. Impact of Sputtered AZO Seed Layer Thickness on Hydrothermally Grown ZnO Nanowires Properties for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2025, ⟨10.1002/adem.202401356⟩. ⟨hal-04897648⟩
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