Surface morphological and photoelectrochemical studies of ZnS thin films developed from single source precursors by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 540, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Ehsan, Muhammad Ali ^a   Peiris, T A Nirmal ^b   Wijayantha, K G Upul ^b   Khaledi, Hamid ^a   Ming, Huang Nay ^a   Misran, Misni ^a   Arifin, Zainudin ^a   Mazhar, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Band gap; Photoelectrochemical; Single source; Thin films; Zinc sulphide

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DECOMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; FILM PREPARATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

AEROSOL-ASSISTED CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC; SINGLE SOURCE;

VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84901853595     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2013.05.117     Document Type: Article

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