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GROWTH AND STUDY OF OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CHEMICALLY DEPOSITED CdS1-xSex:Ag NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS FOR SENSOR APPLICATION
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4.1 Introduction
Cadmium sulfide (CdS) is a semiconducting material used in a variety of
applications. The wide band gap, low absorption loss, compact crystallographic cell
structure and electronic affinity makes CdS is a promising opto-electronic device for
making solar cells with CuInS2 (CIS), CuInSe2 (CISe), InP [1]. Thin films of CdS have
received considerable attention towards other device applications such as
electrochemical cells [2], gas sensors [3], and metal-Schottky barrier cells [1]. It is
mainly used as an optical window material. Nanoparticles of CdS doped with other
semiconductor materials working as photo sensor detection [4].
Thin films of CdS can be grown by chemical and physical methods such as
chemical bath deposition (CBD)[5–14], spray pyrolysis [15–16], electrodeposition [17,
18], solution growth [19], Sol-Gel [20], successive ionic layer of adsorption and reaction
(SILAR) [21, 22], vacuum deposition [23–26], sputtering [27], sintering [28],
sublimation [29], molecular beam epitaxy [30, 31] etc,. Among these methods, CBD is
found to be inexpensive as well as the simplest method to deposit large area thin films.
In the present work, we have prepared the CdS thin films on to the glass substrate
by chemical bath deposition (CBD) method at 80 0C temperature. Preparative parameters
such as concentration of cationic and anionic precursor solutions, pH of the solution,
temperature, complexing agent and deposition time are optimized to get homogeneous,
large area deposition with good quality adherent and uniform thin films. The as-
deposited CdS thin films were characterized for their structural, surface morphological,
optical, electrical properties, and photosensitivity of the films.
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4.2 Chemical Bath Deposition Technique
4.2.1 Experimental set-up
Fig. 4.1 Schematic diagram of experimental set-up for the chemical bath
deposition technique [Lab setup].
Fig 4.1 shows the schematic diagram and photograph of experimental set-up for
the deposition of thin films by chemical bath deposition technique. It consists of water
bath, chemical reaction bath, and constant speed motor cum regulator, substrate and
substrate holder. For maintaining the temperature of the main reaction bath, it was kept
into the water bath. For getting uniform deposition throughout the substrate, a magnetic
stirrer was kept into the main reaction bath and continuously stirred the solution
throughout the deposition time. The glass slides were used as a substrate. For
maintaining the pH, the pH electrode was inserted into the reaction beaker for pH
measurement.
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4.2.2 Reaction bath
A 250 ml glass beaker (Borosil make) with the mixture of chemical reactants
serves as the chemical bath. It is immersed in the constant temperature water bath as
shown in Fig. 4.1, whose temperature can be controlled. The chemical reactants
containing solution is stirred by magnetic stirrer.
4.3 Preparation of CdS Thin Films
4.3.1 Substrate cleaning
In chemical bath deposition technique, substrate has adverse effect on the
characterization of material deposited. The contamination can give rise to the unexpected
results leading to the output in unidentified way. So this can be avoided by thoroughly
cleaning the substrate. The glass slides of the dimension 7.3 cm x 2.5 cm x 0.2 cm have
been used as the substrates. The following procedure has been used for cleaning of the
substrates.
• The slides were washed with water.
• Boiled in concentrated chromic acid (0.5M) for 1h and kept in it for 24 h.
• Again washed with double distilled water.
• Finally, the substrates were dried, degreased in AR grade acetone and were kept
in dust free airtight container.
4.3.2 Preparation of solutions
Chemicals used for preparing CdS films were as follows:
• A. R. grade cadmium chloride [CdCl2].H2O was used as a cationic precursor
solution,
• For maintaining the pH of the precursor solution ~ 11.5, 25% concentrated NH3
solution was used.
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• Thiourea (CS)[NH2]2 was used as anionic precursor solution supplied by Loba
Chemie, Mumbai.
All solutions were prepared in deionized water.
4.3.3 Volumetric reactions for CdS formation
Volumetric calculations of reactants were made for CdS deposition; 20 ml of
0.1M cadmium chloride and 0.1M thiourea were taken. The pH of the resultant mixture
was kept ~ 11.5 by the addition of aqueous ammonia with the constant rate (2 ml/min)
and constant stirring. The temperature of the reaction bath was maintained at 80±50C.
4.4 Characterization of CdS Thin Films
4.4.1 Film thickness
The film thickness measurement of CdS thin films were carried out by
interferometer technique as explained in section 3.1 of chapter 3. Thickness of film was
found to be ~320 nm for deposition time of 120 min.
4.4.2 X-ray diffraction
The X-ray diffraction method is useful for structural investigation as well as for
the calculation of interplanar distance‘d’. The XRD studies were carried out using
Bruker AXS Germany, D8 Advanced X-ray diffractometer (Cu-Kα radiation; λ = 1.5405
Å). The X-ray diffractometer was operated at 40kV, 100mA. XRD data analysis was
done by using JCPDS and compared with the results reported by various researchers.
4.4.3 Energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX)
The elemental composition of the thin film has been obtained by using EDAX
spectrum. The as deposited thin film was characterized by EDAX using JEOL-JSM 5600.
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4.4.4 Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been proved to be a unique, convenient
and versatile method to analyze surface morphology of a film and to determine the grain
size. The surface morphology of the film was studied by scanning electron microscopy
(SEM) (Model: JEOL–JSM–5600)
4.4.5 Optical analysis
A double beam spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer UV–VIS spectrophotometer
Lambda 25 with automatic computer data acquisition) was employed to record optical
spectrum over the wavelength range of 350–850 nm, at normal light incident.
4.4.6 Electrical analysis
4.4.6.1 Electrical resistivity
The two probe method was used to study the variation of resistivity with
temperature. The experimental setup is schematically shown in Fig. 3.6 of section 3.6.
The thin film of size 1 × 1 cm2 deposited on the glass substrate is used for the resistivity
measurement. Silver paste was applied for making the good ohmic contacts to the film.
A mica sheet was used between the film and the brass plate to provide the insulation.
4.4.6.2 I – V characteristics
The room temperature resistivity was measured from I-V characteristics (Lab
equipment unit model no. 2004 interfaced with computer), the voltage applied over the
range ±3V. Silver paste was employed to ensure good ohmic contacts with the films.
Photosensitivity property of CdS films were studied by I-V curves in dark and under
illumination with in visible range.
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4.5 Result and Discussions
4.5.1 Reaction process and growth mechanism
The solution chemistry involved in the deposition of CdS thin films takes place
by the process of hydrolysis in alkaline medium. The formation of a solid phase from a
solution involves two steps; as nucleation and particle grown. The size of the particles of
solid phase is dependent upon the relative rates at which the two competing process takes
place. It also depends on temperature, rates of mixing reagent, concentration of reagent
and solubility of the precipitate during precipitation.
For precipitate, there is some minimum number of ions and molecules required to
produce a stable second phase in contact with solution called a nucleus. The rate of
formation of nuclei in a solution depends on the degree of supersaturation. The growth of
the particles begins when nuclei or other seed particles are present.
The formation of solid CdS phase in the aqueous medium takes place as follows:
NH3 + H2O NH4+ + OH– (4.1)
Cd2+ + 4NH3 Cd (NH3)42+ (4.2)
(NH2)2 CS + OH- CH2N2 + H2O + HS- (4.3)
HS- + OH- S2- + H2O (4.4)
Perfect crystalline nuclei appeared on the substrate in the early stage of CdS
deposition under the effects of thermodynamics, dynamics and chemistry factors which
coalescence to form the final CdS film. Fig. 4.1 shows the formation of CdS films. The
crystalline nuclei deposited on the substrate, which was grown and coalescence with NH3
released from Cd(NH3)4 2 +
and S2-, combined to form the final CdS film. The reaction was
described as follows [32].
Cd(NH3)42+
+ S2- CdS ↓ + 4NH3↑ (4.5)
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Cd(NH3)42+
2- S
CdS
Fig. 4.1 Sketch map of process of forming CdS film.[32]
The deposition process is based on the slow release of Cd2+ and S2- ions. The
amount of sulfide ions in the bath is controlled through setting up of appropriate
chemical equilibrium, i.e., by adjusting properly the bath parameters and considering the
solubility product.
4.5.2 X-ray diffraction (XRD)
The X-ray diffraction pattern for CdS thin film shows in Fig. 4.2. The XRD
pattern reveals polycrystalline nature of as-deposited material. The diffraction peaks at
2θ = 26.670, 28.330 and 48.090 are attributed to (002), (101) and (103) planes,
respectively of hexagonal CdS, as can be seen in comparison with the JCPDS Card No.
80-0006. It has been argued that the ion-by-ion process (heterogeneous reaction) results
in compact film. The crystallographic phases of samples are in good agreement with the
typical hexagonal wurtzite structure.
The lattice constants ‘a’ and ‘c’ are obtained from the X-ray analysis using the
following relationship for hexagonal crystal [22],
(4.6) 2
2
2
22
2 341 lkhkh
+⎟⎟⎞
⎜⎜⎛ ++
=cad ⎠⎝
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where h, k, l are the miller indices and ‘dhkl’ is the distance between the crystallographic
planes.
The crystallite sizes (D) were calculated using the Scherrer’s formula from the
full-width at half maximum (FWHM) (β) by using the relation,
(4.7)
The values give a range estimate of typical crystallite size, due to non uniformity of the
size and mixed phase in the film [33]. The various structural parameters for CdS thin
films are calculated using standard formulae and are systematically represented in table
4.1. The lattice parameters calculated matches very well with the standard values
reported by other workers [34–36].
Fig. 4.2 XRD pattern of as-deposited CdS thin film
20 30 40 50 60
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
1100C dS
(103
)
(101
)(0
02)
Inte
nsity
(cps
)
2θ (deg .)
ADθβ
oλcos
=9.0
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Table 4.1 Various structural parameters calculated for CdS thin films.
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4.5.3 Energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX)
Quantitative analysis of the film was carried out using the EDAX technique to
study stoichiometry of the film. The elemental analysis was carried out only for Cd and
S. Fig. 4.3 shows EDAX spectrum of chemically deposited CdS thin films. It was
significant to note that films deposited at optimized preparative parameters are nearly
stoichiometric with average atomic percentage of Cd:S = 48.86: 51.14. There were some
other peaks presents in the spectra, which might be due to oxygen (0.5keV), silicon
(1.75keV) and some other peaks due to calcium, sodium, magnesium etc. The extra
peaks arise due to the presence of these elements in amorphous glass substrate [37].
Fig. 4.3 Typical EDAX spectrum of CdS thin film.
4.5.4 Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been proved to be a unique, convenient
and versatile method to analyze surface morphology of a film and to determine the grain
size. The as-deposited film has been found to exhibit a uniform, homogeneous and
granular morphology covering entire substrate surface. All the grains are almost
spherical in shape (nanocrystalline) with the average grain size ~90–100 nm. The film
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grown as a hexagonal wurtzite structure with the (002) plane parallel to the substrate
surface and the c-axis perpendicular to the substrate [38].
4.5.5 Opt
In
films, op
the as-gr
absorban
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Fig. 4.4 SEM image of CdS thin film at different magnifications.
ical analysis
order to study the nature of the electronic transitions for the as-grown CdS thin
tical absorption was studied. Fig. 4.5 shows the optical absorption spectra for
own CdS thin films. This spectrum reveals that CdS thin films have low
ce in the visible region, which is a characteristic of CdS thin films.
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The nature of the transition was determined using the Tauc’s relation,
(4.8)
where ‘hν’ is the photon energy, and ‘A’, ‘n’ are constants. The exponent ‘n’ depends
upon the type of transition and has values of 1/2, 2 and 3/2 for direct, indirect and direct
forbidden transitions, respectively.
0.
1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.20
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
Eg = 2.40 eV
CdS
(αhν
)2 x1010
(eV/
cm)2
hν (eV)
400 500 600 700 800 9000.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6 CdS
Abs
orba
nce
(αt)
Wavelength (nm)
Fig. 4.5 Plot of variation of absorbance versus wavelength for CdS thin film.
ngEA )−= ννα hh (
Fig. 4.6 Plot of energy band gap (αhν) 2 versus hν of CdS thin film.
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To understand the onset of high photon energy corresponding to the direct band
gap we plotted (αhν)2 versus hν and is shown in Fig. 4.6. Extrapolating the straight-line
portion of the plot of (αhν)2 vs (hν) for zero absorption coefficient value gives the band
gap, which is found to be 2.4 eV which is in good agreement with value reported earlier
[39].
4.5.6 Electrical analysis
4.5.6.1 Electrical resistivity
To study the electrical resistivity of CdS thin films, the dark resistivity
measurement was carried out in the temperature range 323 to 423 K using D.C. two
probe method. The measurement shows that the as-deposited CdS films have the
resistivity of 0.15 × 103 Ω-cm at 423 K.
The variation of Log ρ with 1000/T is depicted in Fig. 4.7. It is observed that
resistivity decrease with increase in temperature suggesting the semiconductor behavior
of CdS. The activation energy for the as-deposited CdS films is calculated from slope of
Fig. 4.7 and is found out to be 0.24 eV.
2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.22.0
2.2
2.4
2.6
2.8
3.0
3.2CdSEa = 0.24 eV
log ρ
(Ω-c
m)
(1000/T)(K-1)
Fig. 4.7 Plot of Log ρ Vs 1000/T for CdS thin film.
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4.5.6.2 I–V characteristics
To study the transport properties, we have calculated dark electrical resistivity of
‘as-deposited’ CdS thin film at room temperature. The dark electrical resistivity was
carried out from the I–V characteristics curve and is shown in Fig. 4.8. From the plot the
room temperature electrical resistivity was found out to be 0.83 × 103 Ω-cm. The
observed value of the resistivity is quite lower than the values reported earlier [40].
Usually, binary compounds like CdS, CdSe etc. are known to have hexagonal, cubic or
mixed structures. But film form shows high conductivity due to close packing, where as
the cubic modification or a mixture of the two shows poor conductivity [41]. On many
occasion researchers have reported the high conductivity shown by CdS films as due to
growth of the hexagonal phase [42].
4.5.7 Photo response
The as-deposited CdS thin films were used for the photo sensor studies. When the
surface of the sample is illuminated with photons of energy greater than the optical band
gap of materials, valence electrons get excited and jump across the forbidden energy gap
and acts as a free charge carriers in the conduction band. This process produces
‘electron-hole’ pairs which results in enhancement of conductivity of material. The
phenomenon is known as ‘photoconductivity’ or process is called as ‘photosensing’.
The photosensitivity property of CdS was studied by I–V curve in dark and under
illumination with different light intensities. The distance between 60 watt bulb and
sensor was varied to change the intensity of light. The change in intensity of light with
respect to change in distance of lamp was standardizes by ‘Lux-meter’. Fig. 4.8 shows I–
V plot of sample in dark and under illumination for intensities 600, 900, 1200 and 1500
Lux. In the surrounding of the incandescent bulb it generates heat and the excitement of
electrons from valence band may also take place due to thermal energy. Therefore,
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absorption of photons by the sensing material may results either in a quantum or thermal
response.
In our results, current increases with change in voltage for different light
intensities and the characteristic shows ohmic behavior. The dark resistivity of the
sample shows 0.83 × 103 Ω-cm and it decreases to 0.615× 102 Ω-cm for light of intensity
1500 Lux.
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
-2
-1
-1
-0
0
0
1
1
2
CdS in dark 600 lux 900 lux 1200 lux 1500 lux
Curr
ent I
X10
-6 A
Voltage (v)
Fig. 4.8 I-V characteristic of CdS film in dark and under illumination.
For the photosensor characterization of the film, photosensitivity is an important
parameter which calibrates directly the quality of the photosensor. The photosensitivity
[43–45] is calculated by using the equation as,
(4.9) d
dph
III
S−
=
where, Id and Iph are the dark and photo currents respectively. It is concluded that the
enhancement of the photoconductive sensitivity is due to the electron-hole pairs excited
by the incident light [46–48].
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Fig. 4.9 shows the plot of photosensitivity versus illuminated intensity. The
photosensitivity shows linear response, this behavior is consistent with the increase in the
number of free carriers in the semiconductor under illumination, as expected from optical
properties [45, 47].
600 800 1000 1200 1400 160010
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100 CdS
Phot
osen
sitiv
ity
Light Intensity (lux)
M
concentr
NH3, Tri
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Fig. 4.9 Photosensitivity versus light intensity for CdS thin films
any of the researchers have reported the photosensitivity depends on the molar
ation of cationic and anionic precursor and it is also affected by concentration of
ethanolamine (TEA), annealing temperature and deposition techniques [48-51].
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