@ARTICLE{Wisz_Grzegorz_Solar_2021, author={Wisz, Grzegorz and Sawicka-Chudy, Paulina and Sibiński, Maciej and Starowicz, Zbigniew and Płoch, Dariusz and Góral, Anna and Bester, Mariusz and Cholewa, Marian and Woźny, Janusz and Sosna-Głębska, Aleksandra}, volume={29}, number={3}, journal={Opto-Electronics Review}, pages={97-105}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences (under the auspices of the Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication) and Association of Polish Electrical Engineers in cooperation with Military University of Technology}, abstract={In this study, solar cells based on copper oxide and titanium dioxide were successfully manufactured using the reactive direct-current magnetron sputtering (DC-MS) technique with similar process parameters. TiO2/CuO, TiO2/Cu2O/CuO/Cu2O, and TiO2/Cu2O solar cells were manufactured via this process. Values of efficiencies, short-circuit current, short-circuit current density, open-circuit voltage, and maximum power of PV devices were investigated in the range of 0.02÷0.9%, 75÷350 µA, 75÷350 µA/cm2, 16÷550 mV, and 0.6÷27 µW, respectively. The authors compare solar cells reaching the best and the worst conversion efficiency results. Thus, only the two selected solar cells were fully characterized using I-V characteristics, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ellipsometry, Hall effect measurements, and quantum efficiency. The best conversion efficiency of a solar cell presented in this work is about three times higher in comparison with the authors’ previous PV devices.}, type={Article}, title={Solar cells based on copper oxide and titanium dioxide prepared by reactive direct-current magnetron sputtering}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120911/PDF/OPELRE_2021_29_3_G_Wisz.pdf}, doi={10.24425/opelre.2021.139039}, keywords={solar cells, copper oxides, titanium dioxide, reactive magnetron sputtering}, }