Analysis Of Solar Material Fabrication And Data Acquisition System

Research Article
Natarajan S., Anto Bennet M., Anup Kumar and Niranjan Kumar
DOI: 
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Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Data Acquisition System, transparent conducting oxide (TCO)
Abstract: 

The synthesis process of solar material fabrication can be automated and interfaced with PC to acquire data such as temperature, time, etc. The main objective is to reduce the manual error and monitoring and to improve the synthesis parameters to achieve better fabrication. The simplest, most economical, most energy-efficient method for synthesizing Aluminum doped zinc oxidenanorods is by using the hydrothermal method, which can be used for solar cell material fabrication. The effects of hydrothermal parameters (including heat-treatment temperature, pH of hydrothermal bath solution, and hydrothermal reaction time) on ZnOnano-rod formation were systematically studied. The UV-sensing properties of all samples were correlated with their structure and morphology. The final morphology and crystal structure of ZnOnano-rods were found to affect the UV-sensing properties. In this work, to regulate the parameters such as temperature of process and duration of process, we proposed microcontroller based temperature controller and monitoring with predefined timing can be designed and implemented. Also to confirm the growth mechanism, we have taken SEM and TEM images to ensure the growth improvement by comparing manual method with automated method