Abstract
In this paper, we present a comparative study of photoelectrochemical cells based on the films nanoparticles (NPs) and
nanowires (NWs) of cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films grown by chemical bath deposition (CBD) and wet chemical etching.
The CdS samples are characterized by XRD, SEM and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy. The cell configuration n-CdS/1M
(NaOH-Na2S-S)/C(graphite) is used for studying the I-V characteristics under illumination, photovoltaic output
characteristics and transient photoresponse. Performance of the PEC cell is found to be improved by converting NPs of
CdS into NWs.
Keywords
Chemical bath deposited CdS, Nanoparticles and nanowires, Surface morphology, Photoelectrochemical cells.
Citation
J. K. DONGRE, V. NOGRIYA, R. ALONEY, M. RAMRAKHIANI, Nanostructures based photoelectrochemical cells for energy conversion, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 4, April 2009, pp.338-342 (2009).
Submitted at: March 10, 2009
Accepted at: April 23, 2009