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Item Controlled growth of 1D-ZnO nanotubes using one-step hot plate technique for CZTS heterojunction solar cells(Elsevier Ltd, 2020) Varadharajaperumal, S.; Alagarasan, D.; Ganesan, R.; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Hegde, G.Present work reports a simple, rapid, one-step hot plate technique for systematic growth transformation of highly oriented ZnO nanorods (ZNRs) into ZnO nanotubes (ZNTs). The controlled growth of ZnO nanostructures (nanorods and nanotubes) was achieved at low temperature (90 °C) in a short time (1hr) in a sealed weighing bottle (100 ml). It is observed that as the Zinc precursor concentration increases, a vertically grown ZnR morphology evolves into ZNT. The crystal structure of as-grown ZnO nanostructures, surface morphology, phase, and optical energy gap were respectively characterized by XRD, FESEM, Raman, XPS, CL and UV–Vis spectroscopy. Grown nanostructures are further explored for their application in CZTS based heterojunction photovoltaics. © 2019Item Toxic-free surface level sulphur doped 1D Ti-Ox-Sy nanorods for superstrate heterojunction CZTS thin-film solar cells(Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Varadharajaperumal, S.; Alagarasan, D.; Sripan, C.; Ganesan, R.; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Hegde, G.Surface level sulphur (S) doped TiO2 nanorods (S-TNRs) were fabricated via toxic-free novel three-step processes such as low-temperature hydrothermal method followed by thermal evaporation (S layer) and post-annealing (350 °C, 450 °C and 550 °C) techniques. Present work focuses on the comprehensive studies of surface level doping, structure, morphology and compositional properties of different temperature annealed S-TNRs for CZTS thin-film (Au/CZTS/S-TNRs/TNRs/FTO) solar cells. The oxidation states of incorporated S atoms in the TiO2 matrix were identified from X-ray photoelector spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. A reduction in bandgap for 350 °C annealed S-TNRs film was observed from UV-Vis spectroscopy. The electrical characteristics showed the fabricated solar cells strongly depend on the S-TNRs annealing temperature. Proposed technique would be useful in effective and controlled (surface level) doping of S atoms into any desired nanostructured metal oxides for optoelectronic applications and, further useful in fabricating cadmium (Cd) free buffer layer in chalcogenide solar cells. © 2020 Elsevier LtdItem A comprehensive study on effect of annealing on structural, morphological and optical properties of CdO and photodetection of heterojunction n-CdO/p-Si diode(Elsevier GmbH, 2021) Poul Raj, I.L.P.; Chidhambaram, N.; Saravanakumar, S.; Sasikumar, S.; Varadharajaperumal, S.; Alagarasan, D.; Alshahrani, T.; Shkir, M.; AlFaify, S.The present investigation reports the synthesis of CdO using the facile sol-gel technique. The CdO samples exhibit cubic structure and their crystalline quality increases with different sintering temperatures (550, 650, and 750 °C). The maximum entropy method (MEM) was applied to calculate the charge density distribution of the CdO samples and the two-dimensional charge density maps showed a slight enlargement in the cell volume of the CdO with sintering temperatures. The bandgap of the CdO samples varied from 2.89 to 2.66 eV with increasing sintering temperature. Heterojunction n-CdO/p-Si photodiodes were constructed (using CdO samples) on silicon wafers using the spin coating procedure. The ideality factor of the diodes is found to decrease from 5.2 to 4.2 with sintering temperatures of the CdO. The heterojunction diode constructed using the CdO sample sintered at 750 °C exhibited the highest responsivity and external quantum efficiency values of 0.34 A/W and 109 %, respectively. Improved crystallinity, responsivity, and quantum efficiency make the developed CdO device useful for optoelectronics. © 2021 Elsevier GmbH