Structural and optical characterisation of CdSe1-ySy

J. Díaz-Reyes, J. I. Contreras-Rascón, J. S. Arias-Cerón, J. F. Sánchez-Ramírez, M. Galván-Arellano, J. Martínez-Juárez, J. A. Balderas-López

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Abstract

In this work presents the structural and optical characterisation of cadmium selenide sulphur (CdSe1-ySy) deposited by chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique at a deposited temperature of 20±2 °C varying the sulphur molar fraction from 0% to 42.13%, which is realized by varying the thiourea volume added to the growth solution in the range from 0 to 30 ml. The CdSe1-ySy chemical stoichiometry was determined by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and Raman spectroscopy reveal that CdSe1-ySy deposited nanofilms showed hexagonal wurtzite crystalline phase. The average grain size range of the films was from 1.48-9.2 nm that was determined using the Scherrer-Debye equation from W(200) crystalline direction, which was confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). CdSe1-ySy band gap energy can be varied from 1.86 to 2.15 eV by varying the sulphur molar fraction incorporated in the nanofilms. The room temperature photoluminescence presents a dominant band about 3.0 eV that may be associated with the grain size of the nanoparticles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)199-206
Number of pages8
JournalMaterials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Volume37
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jun 2015

Keywords

  • CdSeS
  • HRTEM
  • Optical band gap
  • Photoluminescence
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • X-ray diffraction

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