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Electrically reduced graphene oxide for photovoltaic application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Arun Singh ,
Neeraj Sharma ,
Mohd. Arif  and
Ram S. Katiyar
Arun Singh*
Affiliation:
Advanced Electronic and Nano-Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India
Neeraj Sharma
Affiliation:
Advanced Electronic and Nano-Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India
Mohd. Arif
Affiliation:
Advanced Electronic and Nano-Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India
Ram S. Katiyar
Affiliation:
SPECLAB, Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 90036, USA
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: arunsingh07@gmail.com
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Abstract

We report Electrically reduced graphene oxide (GO) and n-type Si heterostructure junction-based photovoltaic cell. The transition of the insulating properties of GO to that of semi-conducting was achieved by applying electric voltages using 5, 10, and 15 V biasing. The photovoltaic device I–V characteristics corresponding to the increasing (5–15 V) reduction voltages, obtained on exposure of 25 mW/cm2 visible light, showed approximately same fill factor with increased efficiency. The maximum efficiency of 1.12% was observed under ultraviolet light exposure for photovoltaic cell consisting GO reduced using 15 V reduction voltage. GO was synthesized using the modified Hummers’ technique and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet–visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The GO characteristic XRD peak corresponding to plane (001) was observed at 9.16°. The UV-Vis spectrum for GO displayed an absorption peak at 228.5 nm, and the corresponding Tauc plot analysis provided a band gap of 4.74 eV. The FTIR analysis showed presence of C=O (1713 cm−1), C=C (1627 cm−1), C–OH (1418 cm−1), C–O–C (1252 cm−1), C–O (1030 cm−1), and C–H (827 cm−1) functional groups in GO.

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graphene oxidevoltage reductionphotovoltaic cellXRDSEMUV-vis
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , 28 February 2019 , pp. 652 - 660
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2019 

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