Infuence of the thermal annealing on the morphological and structural propertie

Abstract

In this work, ZnO flms were deposited onto fexible polyimide substrates by ink-jet printing nanoinks containing polyolsynthesized nanocrystals. ZnO flms were annealed at 200–400 °C for 10 min and 60 min under the ambient atmosphere. The morphological (shape, size, size distribution, surface roughness), structural (phase composition, crystal structure), optical (band gap, transmission coefcients) properties and the chemical composition of the synthesized nanocrystals and the obtained flms were studied. X-ray difraction analysis, transmission and scanning electron microscopies, atomic force microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and optical spectroscopies, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) were used to study the properties of obtained ZnO materials. The flms, annealed at Ta=400 °C for ta=60 min, and nanocrystals, synthesized for tg=120 min, have the good fundamental characteristics for application in the microelectronic devices, especially in solar cells and thermoelectric generators.