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Effect of post-synthesis annealing on properties of SnS nanospheres and its solar cell performance
Nguyen Tam Nguyen Truong
Ha Hai Thi Hoang
Thanh Kieu Trinh
Viet Thanh Hau Pham
Ryan Patrick Smith1
Chinho Park†
School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-Ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea 1Department of Physics, California State University - East Bay, Hayward, CA 94542, U.S.A., USA
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, April 2017, 34(4),
10.1007/s11814-016-0347-4
10.1007/s11814-016-0347-4
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Abstract
SnS nanospheres (NSPs) were synthesized, and the effects of thermal annealing on the structural, morphological, chemical compositional and optical properties were examined. As-synthesized SnS NPSs with a mean size of 3-4 nm underwent a solid state morphological transformation by high temperature annealing in a nitrogen environment. Upon annealing, the size of SnS NSP increased to 5-6 nm with enhanced crystallinity. Also, the photoluminescence (PL) of the nitrogen-annealed samples slightly decreased in intensity with accompanying red-shift in spectrum. The power conversion efficiency of the solar cells using a polymer and the SnS NSPs was ~0.71%. These results confirm that the SnS NSPs demonstrate a potential as an inorganic material to be used in organic-inorganic hybrid bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaic devices.
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