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Zinc Oxide Embedden Photonic Crystal Structure for Thin Film Solar Cell
Aidid bin Abdullah
Supervisor: Dr. Fariza Hanim binti Suhailin
Bachelor of Applied Science (Electronics and Instrumentation Physics)
School Of Ocean Engineering
In this work, we fabricate the photonic crystal to learn its properties which potential
to enhance solar cell application. Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is chosen as the
material for this study due to better understanding of material properties and widely
available data. PMMA is synthesized by green process because it does not use
surfactant and only used water as dispersion medium. This process is known as freeemulsifier
emulsion polymerization reaction. This method enables a low cost of
production and a high quality of photonic crystal lattice. By this process, the size of
PMMA sphere will be form and range of sizes is 400 nm to 600 nm. The size of PMMA
spheres is used to control the lattice spacing. In this research, we investigated the
sized size of photonic crystal which is PMMA and determined which sized is near to
solar intensity.
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