Comparative studies on the structural, morphological, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystalline PbS thin films grown by chemical bath deposition using two different bath compositions

Synthesis and characterization of highly ordered nanosized PbS thin films: modified silar

“…Fig. 1(b) shows a direct band energy plot and the PbS thin film shows 1.40 eV band gap energy value, which is in good accordance with other reported values in literature [6,7]. The crystal structure of the synthesized thin film was confirmed by using XRD study.…”

Influence of grain size on structural and optic properties of PbS thin films produced by SILAR method

“…5, the direct band gap values of the PbS thin films obtained from 15, 20 and 30 dipping changed from 1.33, 1.49 and 1.92 eV when the grain size changed from 32 nm, 38 nm and 104 nm, respectively. Similar results were reported in the literature[14,15,16]. The absorption and reflectance data are related to the extinction coefficient κ and refractive index n. To determine κ, we used the following equation[17]:Fig.5…”

Optical and structural properties of lead sulphide (PbS) thin films synthesized by chemical method

“…The resulting films were uniform, homogeneous and well adhered to the substrate with dark surface. The suggested reactions are as follows (Tohidi et al, 2014;Osherov et al, 2007 Figure 1 shows the X-ray diffraction patterns for PbS thin The crystalline size of the deposited films for all the samples were calculated using Full Width Half Maximum data (FWHM) and Debye-Scherer formula and their grain size are in within the ranges of (12-27) nm (Chaudhuri et al, 2005;Abbas et al, 2011).…”