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Quantifying competitive grain overgrowth in polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Christophe Ballif, Cécile Hébert, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Sylvain Nicolay, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

2019

Zinc blende-wurtzite polytypism in nanocrystalline ZnO films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

ZnO is commonly observed and assumed to crystallize fully in a wurtzite structure. Indeed, While polytypism between a wurtzite and a zinc blende phase is often seen in some II-VI compounds, it has only rarely been observed in ZnO. Here, by means of automat ...

Elsevier2017

Transparent Electrodes in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence on Contact Passivation

Christophe Ballif, Florent Sahli, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Lorenzo Fanni, Björn Niesen, Loris Barraud

Charge carrier collection in silicon heterojunction solar cells occurs via intrinsic/doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer stacks deposited on the crystalline silicon wafer surfaces. Usually, both the electron and hole collecting stacks are externally ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Explaining Morphological and Electrical Features of Boron-doped Zinc Oxide to Tailor New Electrodes for Photovoltaics

Lorenzo Fanni

TCOs are a class of metal oxides that combine transparency to visible light with electrical conductivity. Each TCO is characterized by the trade-off of these two properties which can be tuned for a particular application. This thesis is dedicated to the in ...

EPFL2016

Increasing Polycrystalline Zinc Oxide Grain Size by Control of Film Preferential Orientation

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lorenzo Fanni, Monica Morales Masis, Arthur Brian Aebersold

We investigate the structural evolution of polycrystalline zinc oxide films grown by low pressure metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The goal is to achieve larger grains-leading to higher charge carrier mobility from lower grain boundary density-by c ...

American Chemical Society2015

Tuning the porosity of zinc oxide electrodes: from dense to nanopillar films

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Benoît Florent Paul Delaup, Björn Niesen, Monica Morales Masis, Lorenzo Fanni

Thin films with tunable porosity are of high interest in applications such as gas sensing and antireflective coatings. We report a facile and scalable method to fabricate ZnO electrodes with tuneable porosity. By adjusting the substrate temperature and rat ...

2015

Tailoring the surface morphology of zinc oxide films for high-performance micromorph solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Lorenzo Fanni

Self-textured zinc oxide polycrystalline films prepared by metalorganic low-pressure chemical vapor deposition combine excellent transparency, conductivity and light-scattering ability when used as electrodes for high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar cel ...

Elsevier2014

c-texture versus a-texture low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition ZnO films: Lower resistivity despite smaller grain size

Christophe Ballif, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to tune the morphology of zinc oxide films deposited by low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (LP-MOCVD) while preserving good electrical conductivity. Here a closer look is taken at films depos ...

Elsevier2014