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Structural and Optical Properties of CdxCr2-xS4 Thin Films Grown by Cbd Method for Solar Cell Applications


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1 Department of Physics, R.C.Patel ASC College, Shirpur-425405 (M.S.), India
2 Department of Physics, S. S. V. P. S. College, Shindkheda (M.S.), India
3 Department of Physics, S.G.Patil ACS College, Sakri, India
 

We report the structural and Optical properties of crystalline Cadmium Chromium sulfide (x= 0.6) thin films was deposited on glass substrate using the chemical bath deposition method. The prepared thin films were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis; scanning electron microscopy. From UV spectroscopy, the value of fundamental absorption edge from the intercept lies between 1.5528 - 3.7083 eV and the corresponding α values were 6.869 × 105 to 1o.4129 × 105 cm-1. The direct optical energy band gap of this sample was 2.2735 eV lying in the range of semi-conducting materials, suitable for solar cell applications.

Keywords

CBD, XRD, SEM, Absorption Coefficient, Direct Optical Band Gap.
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H. B. Patil
Department of Physics, R.C.Patel ASC College, Shirpur-425405 (M.S.), India
S. V. Borse
Department of Physics, S. S. V. P. S. College, Shindkheda (M.S.), India
R. R. Ahire
Department of Physics, S.G.Patil ACS College, Sakri, India

Abstract


We report the structural and Optical properties of crystalline Cadmium Chromium sulfide (x= 0.6) thin films was deposited on glass substrate using the chemical bath deposition method. The prepared thin films were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis; scanning electron microscopy. From UV spectroscopy, the value of fundamental absorption edge from the intercept lies between 1.5528 - 3.7083 eV and the corresponding α values were 6.869 × 105 to 1o.4129 × 105 cm-1. The direct optical energy band gap of this sample was 2.2735 eV lying in the range of semi-conducting materials, suitable for solar cell applications.

Keywords


CBD, XRD, SEM, Absorption Coefficient, Direct Optical Band Gap.