TY - BOOK AU - Alaa yahia faid AU - Randa Abdelkarim , AU - Saad.Megahed Elraghy , TI - Synthesis and characterization of ZnO-Cu₂O core shell nanowires for solar energy applications / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Alaa yahia faid , KW - Nanowires KW - Solar Energy KW - Zinc Oxide N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Metallurgical Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Research into nanomaterials has become more and more popular because of their unique properties compared to bulk materials. Amongst various functional materials, zinc oxide (ZnO), with a direct electron energy band gap of 3.34 eV at room temperature, is an important optoelectronic material with an intrinsically n-type semiconducting property. However, to form a p-type ZnO semiconductor is still a challenge. Copper oxide , compared to ZnO, has a much smaller band gap, 1.2 eV, and shows an intrinsically p-type semiconducting property. It has been suggested that when Cu₂O is alloyed with ZnO properly, a p-n semiconductor heterojunction can be formed to be utilized in solar cell and gas sensor applications. In this thesis, ZnO/Cu₂O core-shell nanowire arrays have been successfully fabricated by a simple two-step process. ZnO nanowire arrays were first grown by the anodization method using Zn foil substrates. Copper then was deposited on as-grown ZnO nanowire arrays by chemical bath deposition method. ZnO/Cu₂O core-shell nanowire arrays have exhibited better photoelectrochemical efficiency in visible region as compared to the pure ZnO nanowire arrays, which suggests that ZnO/Cu₂O core-shell nanowire arrays have strong potential as nanoscale building blocks in solar cells and light emission devices UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -