Iron and nickel doped tin (IV) oxide nanosheets: Synthesis, characterization and applications in hybrid solar cells

Muhammad Nasir Hussain; Syed Mujtaba Shah; Ghulam Shabir; Aamir Saeed Bhatti; Amin Badshah; Ali Bahadur; Abdus Saboor; Shahid Iqbal; Khalid Khan

doi:10.1016/j.physe.2018.09.018

Iron and nickel doped tin (IV) oxide nanosheets: Synthesis, characterization and applications in hybrid solar cells

Muhammad Nasir Hussain, Syed Mujtaba Shah, Ghulam Shabir, Aamir Saeed Bhatti, Amin Badshah, Ali Bahadur, Abdus Saboor, Shahid Iqbal, Khalid Khan

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Abstract

The pristine and (Fe and Ni)-doped tin (IV) oxide (SnO ₂ ) nanosheets were synthesized by hydrothermal method. These nanosheets were characterized in detail by UV- visible spectroscopy, fourier transform infra-red (FT-IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM revealed that the nanosheets varied in size from 14 nm to 40 nm. Electrical parameters such as resistance, resistivity and conductivity were also investigated by two probe resistivity measurements. Doped SnO ₂ nanosheets were found more conducting than pristine SnO ₂ . The pristine and (Fe and Ni)-doped SnO ₂ nanosheets were used to fabricate photoactive blend for solid state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The effects of pristine and (Fe and Ni)-doped SnO ₂ nanosheets on the efficiency of solar cells were investigated using photocurrent-voltage (J-V) measurements. Maximum power conversion efficiency of 0.48% was recorded for Ni-doped SnO ₂ nanosheets grafted with sulphonic acid functionalized dye. Other characteristic photovoltaic parameters were found as 2.54 mAcm ⁻² , short circuit current density (J _sc ), 0.42 mV, open circuit voltage (V _oc ) and 0.45, fill factor (FF). The band gap of SnO ₂ (3.8 eV) was significantly reduced to 3.2 eV and 2.8 eV for Fe and Ni-doped SnO ₂ respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-316
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Volume	108
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2018.09.018
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Band gap tuning
Doping
Dye-functionalization
Solar cells

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics

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