The effect of annealing on structural, optical and photosensitive properties of electrodeposited cadmium selenide thin films

Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices

Somnath Mahato¹  Asit Kumar Kar¹ 

[1] Department of Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, 826004 Jharkhand, India;

关键词: CdSe;    Thin film;    Electrodeposition;    XRD;    Photosensitivity;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jsamd.2017.04.001

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Cadmium selenide (CdSe) thin films have been deposited on indium tin oxide coated glass substrate by simple electrodeposition method. X-ray Diffraction (XRD) studies identify that the as-deposited CdSe films are highly oriented to [002] direction and they belong to nanocrystalline hexagonal phase. The films are changed to polycrystalline structure after annealing in air for temperatures up to 450 °C and begin to degrade afterwards with the occurrence of oxidation and porosity. CdSe completely ceases to exist at higher annealing temperatures. CdSe films exhibit a maximum absorbance in the violet to blue-green region of an optical spectrum. The absorbance increases while the band gap decreases with increasing annealing temperature. Surface morphology also shows that the increase of the annealing temperature caused the grain growth. In addition, a number of distinct crystals is formed on top of the film surface. Electrical characteristics show that the films are photosensitive with a maximum sensitivity at 350 °C.

【 授权许可】

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