Enriched optoelectronic properties of cobalt-doped ZnO thin films for photodetector applications

Vinoth, S and Arulanantham, AMS and Saravanakumar, S and Rimal Isaac, RS and Soundaram, N and Chidhambaram, N and Alagarasan, D and Varadharajaperumal, S and Shkir, M and AlFaify, S (2021) Enriched optoelectronic properties of cobalt-doped ZnO thin films for photodetector applications. In: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics .

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Abstract

Cobalt-doped ZnO (ZnO:Co) thin films were synthesized using the chemical bath deposition technique for their potential application in ultraviolet (UV) photosensing. All the prepared samples were characterized using XRD, FESEM, EDX, PL, XPS, and UV�Vis absorption techniques. The UV photosensing property of the thin films was examined under the illumination of UV light (365 nm). The structural and morphological investigations reveal that the ZnO:Co samples have a hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure with nanowire morphology. An increase in crystallite size and a decrease in the bandgap of the samples were observed owing to the replacement of the Co2+ ions in the regular sites of Zn2+. The PL spectra show some defect emission peaks in the visible region because of the occurrence of oxygen vacancies, which suggests a high photoabsorption property of the samples. The XPS study was performed to understand the existence of elements and their binding states in the fabricated thin films. The UV photosensing studies reveal that the highest responsivity of 0.918 AW�1 was achieved for the ZnO:Co (1) sample. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Springer
Keywords:	Cobalt; Crystal structure; Crystallite size; Deposition; Morphology; Thin films; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Zinc oxide; Zinc sulfide, Chemical bath deposition technique; Co thin films; Cobalt-doped ZnO; Doped ZnO thin films; Optoelectronics property; Property; Synthesised; Vis absorption; XRD, II-VI semiconductors
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2021 08:50
Last Modified:	29 Nov 2021 08:50
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70305

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