Effect of low concentration Sn doping on optical properties of CdS films grown by CBD technique

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6320-6328

  Jafari, Atefeh ^a   Zakaria, Azmi ^a   Rizwan, Zahid ^b   Ghazali, Mohd Sabri Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Chemical bath deposition; Doped CdS; Optical properties; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; TIN; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY; FILM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY; X RAY ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 80053199509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms12096320     Document Type: Article

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