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J Fluoresc. 2016 Mar;26(2):459-69. doi: 10.1007/s10895-015-1732-9. Epub 2015 Dec 03.

Studies on Structural, Morphological and Optical Properties of Chemically Deposited CdS(1-x)Se(x) Thin Films.

Journal of fluorescence

Soumya R Deo, Ajaya K Singh, Lata Deshmukh, Narendra Pratap Singh, Mariya P Aleksandrova

Affiliations

  1. Dr. Ira Nimdeokar P.G. & Research Centre for Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Hislop College, Nagpur, -440002, India.
  2. Department of Chemistry, Govt. V. Y. T. P. G. Autonomous College, Durg, 491001, India. [email protected].
  3. Department of Chemistry, Udai Pratap Autonomous PG College, Varanasi, UP, India.
  4. Department of Microelectronics, Technical University of Sofia, 8 St.Kliment Ohridski Boulevard, 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria.

PMID: 26634707 DOI: 10.1007/s10895-015-1732-9

Abstract

The thin films of CdS(1-x)Se(x) were successfully deposited over glass substrates by chemical bath deposition technique. Cadmium acetate, thiourea and sodium selenosulfate were used as source materials for Cd(2+), S(2-) and Se(2-) ions, while 2-mercaptoethanol was used as capping agent. The various deposition conditions such as precursor concentration, deposition temperature, pH and deposition time were optimized for the deposition of CdS(1-x)Se(x) thin films of good quality and the films were annealed at 200° and 300 °C. The structural, morphological, chemical and optical properties were examined by various characterization techniques and discussed in detail. The optical band gap of CdS(1-x)Se(x) thin film samples were estimated and found in the range from 2.11 to 1.79 eV for as-deposited and annealed thin films.

Keywords: 2-ME; Annealing; Cadmium sulfoselenide; Optical properties; SEM; XRD

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