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Morphological Study of Zinc-Oxide Nanorods Grown by Hot Water Treatment Suitable for Solar Cells Conversion Efficiency Enhancement

Mohammad Khairul Basher
,
S. M. Shah Riyadh
,
Md. Khalid Hossain
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Mahmudul Hassan
,
Md. Abdur Rafiq Akand
,
S. M. Amir Al-Zumahi
,
Md. Abdul Matin
,
Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
* ORCID logo ,
Narottam Das
Version 1 : Received: 20 May 2020 / Approved: 21 May 2020 / Online: 21 May 2020 (10:08:55 CEST)

How to cite: Basher, M.K.; Riyadh, S.M.S.; Hossain, M.K.; Hassan, M.; Akand, M.A.R.; Al-Zumahi, S.M.A.; Matin, M.A.; Nur-E-Alam, M.; Das, N. Morphological Study of Zinc-Oxide Nanorods Grown by Hot Water Treatment Suitable for Solar Cells Conversion Efficiency Enhancement. Preprints 2020, 2020050344. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202005.0344.v1 Basher, M.K.; Riyadh, S.M.S.; Hossain, M.K.; Hassan, M.; Akand, M.A.R.; Al-Zumahi, S.M.A.; Matin, M.A.; Nur-E-Alam, M.; Das, N. Morphological Study of Zinc-Oxide Nanorods Grown by Hot Water Treatment Suitable for Solar Cells Conversion Efficiency Enhancement. Preprints 2020, 2020050344. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202005.0344.v1

Abstract

Zinc-oxide (ZnO) nanostructures including nanorods are currently considered as a pioneer research of interest world-wide due to their excellent application potentials in various applied fields especially for the improvement of energy harvesting photovoltaic solar cells (PSC). We report on the growth and morphological properties of zinc-oxide (ZnO) nanorods grown on the surface of plain zinc (non-etched and chemically etched) plates by using a simple, economical, and environment-friendly technique. We apply hot water treatment (HWT) technique to grow the ZnO nanorods and varies the process parameters, such as temperature and the process time duration. The morphological, and elemental analysis confirm the agglomeration of multiple ZnO nanorods with its proper stoichiometry. The obtained nanostructures for different temperatures with different time duration showed the variation in uniformity, density, thickness and nanonorods size. The ZnO nanorods produced on the etched zinc surface were found thicker and uniform as compared to those grown on the non-etched zinc surface. This chemically etched Zinc plates preparation can be an easy solution to grow ZnO nanorods with high density and uniformity suitable for PSC applications such as to enhance the energy conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic (PV) solar cells towards the future sustainable green earth.

Keywords

conversion efficiency; energy harvesting or generation; hot water treatment; nanorods; solar cells; surface etching; surface morphology

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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