Determination of the energy band gap of thin films of cadmium sulphide, copper phthalocyanine and hybrid cadmium sulphide/copper phthalocyanine from its optical studies

Materials Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1078-1083

  Varghese, Shaji ^a   Iype, Mercy ^a   Mathew, E J ^a   Menon, C S ^a  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Annealing; Cadmium sulphide; Chemical deposition; Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc); Optical band gap; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BAND STRUCTURE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0036841932     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-577X(02)00682-1     Document Type: Article

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