International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD) Volume 3 Issue 5, August 2019 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470 @ IJTSRD | Unique Paper ID – IJTSRD25300 | Volume – 3 | Issue – 5 | July - August 2019 Page 465 An Research Article on Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Oxide Coated Solar Cell Vijay Aithekar Faculty of Education and Methodology, Jayoti Vidhyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India How to cite this paper: Vijay Aithekar "An Research Article on Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Oxide Coated Solar Cell" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456- 6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5, August 2019, pp.465-468, https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd25300 Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0) ABSTRACT In this paper we have produced NiO thin film based solar cells. The NiO thin film was then studied for their structural, optical and electrical properties. By the help of these results we have capable to know about the structure of NiO the phase purity of the thin film X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of NiO showed the diffraction planes corresponding to cubic phase respectively. The optical properties showed that with the increase in the deposition time of NiO the energy band gap varied between 3.1 to 3.24 eV. In the end, IV characteristics of the thin films were obtained by the help of matlab in the presence of light as will as dark region. KEYWORDS: Solar radiation, Band gap, FESEM technology, efficiency INTRODUCTION In our modern day-to-day life, environmental and energy resource concerns have been increasing, due to which the greater stress has been placed on development of renewable energy resources, especially on solar energy based photovoltaic cells. Solar energy can be converted to useful direct current electricity using solar cells [1-3]. A major breakthrough in solar cell fabrication would be large scale production at economical cost. Currently, there is difficulty in scaling up existing method of solar cell fabrication. The major obstacles are the expensive nature of materials and the complexities involved in fabricating solar cells. Inorganic semiconducting materials are inexpensive, environmentally friendly and viable sources for solar cell fabrication [4]. Fabrication of nanostructure metal oxide films has generated interest over the years due to their wide application [5-6]. They are used in radiation detectors, solar cells, semiconducting devices, laser materials, thermoelectric devices, and optoelectronic devices. Nanostructure metal oxide is a promising option for thin film solar cells. Metal oxide solar cells offer a good replacement for conventional silicon solar cells. This is because metal oxides are cheap materials, has flexible optical properties, can be accumulated using low-cost techniques, and are simple to scale-up to large volume manufacture. Nanostructure metal oxides are used in a wide range of device applications because of their broad composition and band structure. Nickel oxide (NiO) nanostructures are of particular interest because of their interesting properties and promising applications in solar cells, bio and gas sensors, batteries, super capacitors, catalysis, photo detectors, energetic materials and removal of organic pollutants from waste water[9-10]. NiO has been a potential candidate for a long time due to its interesting electronic structure, steadily influenced by Ni - 3d electrons which are grown over a large energy range but localized in space because of the columbic repulsion between them [11- 12] and they are known for ultraviolet (UV) transparent conductivity and low resistivity, which are advantageous for UV detectors, electro chromic display devices, light-emitting diodes, chemical sensors, catalysts and dye sensitized solar cells. The economic feasibility of this relies on efficient collection, retention, and utilization of photons [13]. In organic nanostructures with tailored geometry over its organic counterparts are expected to play significant roles for the next-generation nanoscale electronic, optoelectronic, electrochemical and electromechanical devices [14]. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY In this paper, we will discuss the materials and methods that have been used for fabrication of solar cell and also the calculations that have been used for calculating the amount of materials. Materials: Nickel Oxide has been used by me as semiconductor materials for the fabrication of the solar cell along with other materials. Nickel oxide NiO of semiconductor compounds and the group is (II-VI) of the periodic Table [15]. It is known because of its several properties like good transparency, wider band gap etc. Fig: 1 Schematic diagram of composite layers used of NiO film coated on ITO [16] IJTSRD25300