Band gap engineering of zinc selenide thin films through alloying with cadmium telluride

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5366-5372

  Al Kuhaili, M F ^a   Kayani, A ^b   Durrani, S M A ^a   Bakhtiari, I A ^a   Haider, M B ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

band gap; cadmium telluride; characterization; evaporation; zinc selenide

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; MAXIMUM CURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; RUTHERFORD BACK-SCATTERING SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMITTANCE AND REFLECTANCES; ZINC SELENIDE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHARACTERIZATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EVAPORATION; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL EVAPORATION; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84879070690     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4014083     Document Type: Article

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