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Effect of substrate on the nanostructured Bi2Se3 thin films for solar cell applications

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In this article, we are reporting the effect of different substrates on the growth of nanostructured bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) thin films for photoelectrochemical (PEC) application. Three different substrates are used such as glass, indium doped tin oxide (ITO) and fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) for the deposition of Bi2Se3 thin film using arrested precipitation technique at room temperature (300 K). The optical, structural, morphological, compositional and PEC properties of Bi2Se3 thin films were studied by using various characterization techniques such as UV–Vis–NIR, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and PEC as a function of different substrates. Finally, the PEC performance of deposited thin films shows highest conversion efficiency 0.14 % for Bi2Se3 thin films deposited on FTO coated substrate surface.

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One of the author Miss. Neha D. Desai is very much thankful to Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi for providing DST-INSPIRE fellowship (IF 140575). This work is also supported by Basic science research programme through the National Science Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by Ministry of education (NRF-2009-0094055).

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  1. Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 416004, India

    Neha D. Desai, Vishvanath B. Ghanwat, Kishorkumar V. Khot & Popatrao N. Bhosale

  2. School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, South Korea

    Sawanta S. Mali & Chang K. Hong

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Desai, N.D., Ghanwat, V.B., Khot, K.V. et al. Effect of substrate on the nanostructured Bi2Se3 thin films for solar cell applications. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 27, 2385–2393 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-4036-6

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