Effect of Low Concentration Sn Doping on Optical Properties of CdS Films Grown by CBD Technique

Thin and transparent films of doped cadmium sulfide (CdS) were obtained on commercial glass substrates by Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique. The films were doped with low concentration of Sn, and annealed in air at 300 °C for 45 min. The morphological characterization of the films with differ...

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Autores principales: Jafari, Atefeh, Zakaria, Azmi, Rizwan, Zahid, Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Sabri
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Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22016661
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms12096320
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author Jafari, Atefeh
Zakaria, Azmi
Rizwan, Zahid
Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Sabri
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description Thin and transparent films of doped cadmium sulfide (CdS) were obtained on commercial glass substrates by Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique. The films were doped with low concentration of Sn, and annealed in air at 300 °C for 45 min. The morphological characterization of the films with different amounts of dopant was made using SEM and EDAX analysis. Optical properties of the films were evaluated by measuring transmittance using the UV-vis spectrophotometer. A comparison of the results revealed that lower concentration of Sn doping improves transmittance of CdS films and makes them suitable for application as window layer of CdTe/CIGS solar cells.
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spelling pubmed-31897852011-10-20 Effect of Low Concentration Sn Doping on Optical Properties of CdS Films Grown by CBD Technique Jafari, Atefeh Zakaria, Azmi Rizwan, Zahid Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Sabri Int J Mol Sci Article Thin and transparent films of doped cadmium sulfide (CdS) were obtained on commercial glass substrates by Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique. The films were doped with low concentration of Sn, and annealed in air at 300 °C for 45 min. The morphological characterization of the films with different amounts of dopant was made using SEM and EDAX analysis. Optical properties of the films were evaluated by measuring transmittance using the UV-vis spectrophotometer. A comparison of the results revealed that lower concentration of Sn doping improves transmittance of CdS films and makes them suitable for application as window layer of CdTe/CIGS solar cells. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2011-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3189785/ /pubmed/22016661 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms12096320 Text en © 2011 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_sort effect of low concentration sn doping on optical properties of cds films grown by cbd technique
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189785/
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