• 文献标题:   Effect of Al doping on the electrical and optical properties of TiO2 embedded Graphene Oxide nanosheets for opto-electronic applications
  • 文献类型:   Article, Proceedings Paper
  • 作  者:   PRABAKARAN S, NISHA KD, HARISH S, ARCHANA J, NAVANEETHAN M, PONNUSAMY S, MUTHAMIZHCHELVAN C, HAYAKAWA Y
  • 作者关键词:   tio2go nanocomposite, resistivity, metal doping, electronhole recombination, band gap tuning
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
  • 通讯作者地址:   SRM Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.02.101
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Exfoliated graphene sheets serve as a good candidate for high performance electronics as they display unique electrical properties. Owing to this, (GO) graphene oxide-Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocomposites has been utilized as an electron transport layer (ETL) for photovoltaic applications. Incorporation of GO-TiO2 nanocomposites in solar cells enhances the efficiency of the device by improving the electron transport. Moreover, metal doping to TiO2 enhances the optical properties by passivating the defects. Metal doping improves charge transports of a TiO(2-)GO nanocomposite. This work, aims to study the role of aluminum as a dopant in TiO(2-)GO nanocomposites. TiO(2-)GO nanocomposites were synthesized by wet chemical method. The effect of aluminum and graphene oxide were investigated on the structural, morphological, electrical and optical characteristics of anatase TiO2. The amount of GO added to Al doped TiO2 was optimized and their impacts on carrier concentration, mobility and film resistivity were investigated. The results revealed that the synthesized Al doped TiO(2-)GO nanocomposites were of superior quality and is suitable material for energy-conversion and -storage applications devices. (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.