Les nanostructures d'oxydes métalliques jouent un rôle essentiel dans les cellules photovoltaïques à colorants, puisque ces matériaux permettent la réalisation du contact électrique transparent en face avant et de la photoanode. L'oxyde stannique (SnO2) et l'oxyde de zinc (ZnO) ont été employés respectivement, car leurs propriétés optiques, électroniques et structurales sont particulièrement bien adaptées aux cellules solaires à colorant. Le contact électrique transparent, obtenu par pyrolyse d'aérosol, se présente sous forme d'une couche mince de SnO2 dopé par du fluor composée de grains nanométriques. Les propriétés électriques et optiques de ce composant ont été optimisées en vue de son intégration dans des cellules à colorants. Une étude approfondie du transport électronique au sein de la couche a permis de quantifier l'influence des différents mécanismes de diffusion suivant les cas considérés. La photoanode a été réalisée, directement à la surface de la couche mince de SnO2, par dépôt chimique de nanofils de ZnO à partir de précurseurs en phase vapeur. Le diamètre et la densité surfacique des nanofils sont contrôlés respectivement par les conditions de croissance et le degré d'oxydation du substrat. Les photoanodes à base de nanofils ont été intégrées dans des cellules à colorant. La limitation des performances de ces cellules est due à la faible surface développée par le ZnO qui conduit à la fixation d'une trop faible quantité de colorant à la surface de ce dernier. Afin de remédier à ce problème, des nanoparticules de ZnO ont été élaborées par bain chimique à la surface des nanofils. Les cellules solaires à base de structures composites présentent des performances supérieures à celles réalisées à partir de nanofils ou de nanoparticules. Les photoanodes composites permettent d'obtenir à la fois un transport efficace des électrons et de développer une surface importante et de ce fait, elles présentent des performances prometteuses. / Metallic oxide nanostructures play a critical role in dye-sensitized solar cells as front transparent electrodes and photoanodes. The use of stannic oxide (SnO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) have been motivated by their particularly suitable structural, electrical and optical properties for dye-sensitized solar cells. Fluorine doped-SnO2 transparent electrodes have been deposited by spray pyrolysis in the form of thin films and consist of nanoscale grains. Their optical and electrical properties have been optimized in order to integrate them into dye-sensitized solar cells. The electron transport has been investigated in details and the influence of each scattering mechanism has quantitatively been assessed. ZnO photoanodes have directly been grown on the SnO2 surface by chemical vapor deposition in the form of nanowires. The nanowire diameter and surface density have been controlled by the growth conditions and the substrate surface oxidation, respectively. The nanowire-based photoanodes have subsequently been integrated into dye-sensitized solar cells. The relatively low efficiency of these cells has been found to be due to the small ZnO surface area, which limits the amount of dye anchored to its surface. In order to circumvent this limitation, ZnO nanoparticles have been deposited on the nanowire surface by chemical bath deposition. The nanocomposite photoanodes lead to the fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells with promising efficiency by combining both efficient electron transport and high developed surface area.

Orientadores: Lisandro Pavie Cardoso, Marco Sacilotti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T18:38:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Chiaramonte_Thalita_D.pdf: 12073771 bytes, checksum: d01b6c585fd5556757aea0542ecf63f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Os nitretos (Ga, Al, In)N assim como os compostos GaInP, GaCuO2, representam um sistema de materiais muito importante para as aplicações em opto-eletrônica e dispositivos tais como os diodos emissores de luz (LEDs), lasers e nanosensores. Entretanto, o requisito essencial para as aplicações industriais desses materiais é a redução em seus tamanhos. Neste trabalho foram crescidos materiais metálicos formados por nitretos de gálio e também de semicondutores do tipo GaInP, GaCuO2 na forma de estruturas 3D, pela técnica de deposição química de organometálicos em fase vapor (MOCVD). Foi utilizado como precursor organometálico (OM) o trimetil gálio Ga(CH3)3e o nitrogênio N2 como gás portador. A temperatura e a pressão foram controladas durante o crescimento variando entre 500 e 750 o C e 100 a 760 Torr, respectivamente. Duas classes de estruturas 3D foram obtidas a partir da decomposição total ou parcial do gás pre-cursor, devido a interação entre o OM e o substrato que gera diferentes morfologias: i) as ligas metálicas (Ga, Al, In) formando estruturas semelhantes a balões, cetros (hastes com terminações esféricas) e neurônios, todos apresentando uma fina membrana de carbono amorfo que reveste a estrutura. Após o crescimento, estas estruturas foram submetidas ao processo de nitretação sob atmosfera de NH3 para transformá-las em micro/nanocristais de GaN; ii) os fios semicondutores micro/nanométricos com uma esfera metálica em sua terminação (bambus e cetros) . Na formação de ambas as estruturas, os precursores OM são como moléculas catalisadoras do crescimento. Este crescimento é considerado como um método alternativo e original para se obter estruturas 3D. Uma possível associação com o modelo apresentado pelo mecanismo de crescimento Vapor-Líquido-Sólido (VLS), que utiliza uma partícula metálica para promover os nanotubos de carbono e os nanofios semicondutores, ainda está em discussão. Informações estruturais e ópticas dessas novas estruturas crescidas sobre substratos de Cu (grade de difração), Si (001), InP (policristalino) e Al/SiO2/Si (fotolitografia) foram obtidas através da caracterização por difração de raios-X, microscopia eletrônica de varredura e de transmissão em alta resolução, espectroscopia por energia disper-siva, catodoluminescência e a espectroscopia de excitação por dois fótons. Nas amostras nitretadas, micro/nano cristais de GaN obtidos da liga de Ga aparecem impregnados no carbono turbostrático (folhas de carbono sem orientação obtidas do amorfo) que revestem as estruturas, e emitem na região do espectro l £ 365 nm, devido às suas dimensões quânticas. As hastes das estruturas do tipo bambus apresentam nódulos formados por discos monocristalinos de GaInP rotacionados de 60 o um em relação ao outro. Óxidos CuGaO2 e CuGa2O4compondo nanofios, denominados cetros, também foram obtidos / Abstract: Nitride (Ga, Al, In)N as well as GaInP, GaCu O2 compounds represent a very important class of materials to be used in the opto-electronic and devices applications such as light emission diodes (LEDs) lasers and nanosensors. However, the essential requirement to the industrial applications of these materials is the reduction in theirs sizes. In this work 3D structures based on gallium nitride and also GaInP, GaCuO2 semiconductors were grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) technique. Trimethyl-gallium Ga(CH3) was used as the metal-organic (MO) precursor and nitrogen N2as carrier gas. During the growth to the temperature and pressure intervals of 500 - 700 oC and 100 - 760 Torr, respectively. Two 3D material classes were obtained from the total or partial precursor gas decomposition, since the interaction between the MO compound and the substrate gives rise to different morphologies: i) (Ga,In,Al) metallic alloys form ballons, scepters (wires with spherical ends) and neurons like structures, all involved by a thin carbon amorphous membrane. After growth, these structures were turned into GaN micro/nanocrystals by nitridation process under NH3 atmosphere; ii) micro/nanometer semiconductor wires with a metallic sphere at its end (bamboos and scepters). In order to form both structures, the MO precursors are taken as a catalyst molecule of the growth process. This is an alternative and original method to obtain 3D structures and a possible association to the model used in the vapour-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mechanism, in which a metallic particle promotes the carbon nanotubes and semiconductors nanowires is still under discussion. Structural and optical informations on these new structures grown on Cu (diffraction grid), Si(001), InP (polycrystalline) and Si/Al (photolithography) substrates were obtained through the characterization by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, en-ergy dispersive x-rays, cathodoluminescence and two photon excitation. In the nitrided samples, GaN micro/nanocrystals obtained from Ga alloy appear embedded in the turbostratic carbon (C sheets at random obtained from the amorphous) which involves the structures and, they emit in the l £ 365 nm region specter, due to their quantum dimensions. The bamboo rods present nodes consisting of GaInP single crystal discs turned by 60o one with respect to the other. The CuGaO2 and CuGa2O4 oxides compounding nanowires, called scepters, also were obtained. / Doutorado / Física / Doutor em Ciências