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The Gold Nanoparticles Arrays on Glass Slides Fabrication and

Properties
Ilchuk G., Kusnezh V., Petrus R.
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine

The further increase efficiency of CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells (SC)
requires the use of new approaches. In particular thin-film SC performance can
be significantly improved by using metal nanoparticles (NPs) deposited on top
of the photoactive layer.
The arrays of gold nanoparticles on glass substrates were fabricated by
thermal annealing (400 C, 120 min.) in vacuum (P ~ 1,3 Pa) of gold thin films
with 6-7 nm nominal thickness obtained by magnetron sputtering (Neo Coater
MP-19020 NCTR, Jeol, Japan) on pretreated glass substrates (16 16 mm2). The
surface morphology using an atomic force microscope and optical absorption
( ) using fiber optic spectrophotometer (AvaSpec-ULS2048-UA-50, Avantes,
Netherlands) were investigated, fig.1.

Fig.1. The surface morphology of gold films with 6-7 nm nominal thickness
after thermal annealing, on top inset the absorption spectra of gold films as
deposited (1, 3) and after thermal annealing (2, 4) for different samples.
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