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Electrical Response of Wet Chemically Grown ZnO Nanorods for Photovoltaic Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Julian Tornow  and
Klaus Schwarzburg
Julian Tornow
Affiliation:
julian.tornow@hmi.de, Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH, Dynamics of Interfacial Reactions, Glienicker Str. 100, 14109 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, N/A, Germany, +49-30 8062 2026
Klaus Schwarzburg
Affiliation:
schwarzburg@hmi.de, Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH, Dynamics of Interfacial Reactions, Berlin, N/A, Germany
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Abstract

Wet chemically prepared arrays of ZnO nanorods in electrolyte solution were investigated with respect to their capacitive behavior. The ZnO nanorod electrode could be well described by a frequency independent capacitive and a conductive element in parallel. The capacitive element is determined as space charge capacitance in the nanorods. However the dependency of the nanorod electrodes capacitance on the applied voltage bias is more complicated than for flat semiconductor electrodes.

Keywords

nanostructureelectrical propertiesphotovoltaic
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 974: Symposium CC – Solar Energy Conversion , 2006 , 0974-CC10-27
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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