AIP Conference Proceedings [AIP Publishing THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ICAST 2019) - Karbala City, Iraq (27–28 March 2019)] THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ICAST 2019) - Investigations of ZnO-NiO/PSi heterojunction for solar cell application

摘要： In this paper, ZnO-NiO nanocomposite has been successfully synthesized using chemical precipitation method .The structural properties were investigated using X-ray diffraction ( XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) . XRD measurements confirms the formation of polycrystalline ZnO and NiO nanoparticles with a hexagonal and cubic structure respectively. The average grain size of ZnO-NiO nanocoposite estimated from FESEM was 60 nm . Heterojunction solar cell fabricated using ZnO-NiO nanocomposite on porous silicon by spray pyrolysis method shows open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 470 mV, short-circuit current density (ISC) of 39 mA/cm2, fill factor (FF) of 78.72% , and efficiency of 14.43%.