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  • Doctoral Thesis
    Optical and Electronic Properties of Atomically Thin Layered Materials: First Principles Calculations
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) İyikanat, Fadıl; Senger, Ramazan Tuğrul; Şahin, Hasan; Senger, Ramazan Tuğrul; Şahin, Hasan; 04.04. Department of Photonics; 04.05. Department of Pyhsics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    The extraordinary interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials is increasing day by day. Thanks to advances in the experimental techniques, monolayer form of another material is synthesized every day with features not seen in the bulk form. Ab initio methods provide useful tools for characterizing and functionalizing the various properties of these materials. The results obtained through first principles quantum-mechanical calculations can help to predict and understand the experimental data, such as the position and source of the spectroscopic peaks in the Raman or optical absorption spectra. The aim of this thesis is to predict and functionalize the optical and electronic properties of atomically thin layered materials using density functional theory and approaches beyond. Within the scope of this thesis, possible technological applications of various 2D materials ranging from perovskite crystals to transition metal dichalcogenites are investigated by using several functionalization methods. In order to accurately predict the optical properties of these materials, it is very important to use approaches that take into account the many-body effects. Recent studies have shown that many-body perturbation theory in the form of GW approximation is highly reliable to calculate the quasiparticle properties of materials. By solving the Bethe Salpeter equation on top of GW calculation, the quasiparticle energies and excitonic properties, which have dominant effect in the optical properties of ultra-thin materials are examined in detail.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analysis of Magnetron Sputtered Cu2znsns4 Based Thin Film Solar Cells With Cds Buffer Layer
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Cantaş Bağdaş, Ayten; Özyüzer, Lütfi; Özyüzer, Lütfi; 04.05. Department of Pyhsics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is a novel quaternary compound which contains Cu, Zn, Sn and S elements. It is a p-type semiconductor which has been taken attention in the last years as an absorber layer. Since it consists of abundant, low cost and non-toxic elements, it is one of the most promising candidate as an absorber layer for thin film photovoltaic (PV) application. Having high absorption coefficient, low bandgap value which is theoretically in desired range make this material attractive for solar cell application. In this thesis, CZTS absorber layers were grown using two stages which are the magnetron sputtering of metallic precursors, followed by a heat treatment under sulfur vapor atmosphere. Two types of CZTS were grown such as SLG/Mo/Cu (55nm)/Sn/Zn/Cu (120nm) and SLG/Mo/Cu (120nm)/Sn/Zn/Cu (55nm). For the same stacking order, the effect of Cu thickness sequentially grown with Sn layer on the film quality were investigated. The optical properties, microstructure, surface and bulk composition of CZTS films were investigated in detail. This study revealed a correlation between the CZTS stacking order having different thickness of Cu layer and the improvement of film quality, which was also confirmed by the photo-conversion efficiency of the fabricated devices. In this work, the other investigated layer is CdS which is an n-type semiconductor with bandgap energy of 2.4 eV. Since CdS has well lattice match with the heterojunction between CdS and CZTS, it is one of the most preferred material as a buffer layer for solar cells. In this work CdS buffer layers were deposited by chemical bath deposition technique. The optimization of CdS layers were occurred and optical, structural, bulk and surface compositions were investigated in detail. Finally, SLG/Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/AZO devices were fabricated. The effect of structure properties of CZTS films and the thickness of CdS buffer layer on efficiency of fabricated solar cells were investigated.