The concentration planes of lead and cadmium sulphide formation in "Cd 2+ -Pb 2+ -L -OH − -N2H4CS"systems (where L -C6H5O7 3-, H2NCH2CH2NH2, C6H5O7 3-+ H2NCH2CH2NH2) were calculated by analyzing of the ion equilibrium. Scaning electron microscopy and energy dispersive analysis results showed the effect of the nature and strength of the complexing agents on composition and morphology of synthesized nanocrystalline CdS -PbS films.Keywords: ionic equilibrium, ligands, hydrochemical deposition, thin films, lead sulfide, cadmium sulfide, substitutional solid solutions.
IntroductionAt present, more and more attention to the issues of detecting infrared radiation is given to heterostructures. The use of these materials allows for a more meaningful results compared with the photodetectors based on silicon and germanium. The use of functional-elements on the basis of substitutional solid solutions is also very attractive in this respect. Changing the content of the replacement component we can regulate their properties over a wide range and the range depends on differences of the basic compounds characteristics. In particular, change of cadmium content in composition of the CdxPb1-xS solid solution allows widely varying characteristics of the semiconductor material from the narrow-band galena PbS (ΔEg = 0.41eV) to wide-band CdS (ΔEg = 2.4 eV). This ensures effective solution of various problems in optoelectronics, such as the manufacture of environmental monitoring instrumentation, optical sensors of temperature control, fast-acting photodetector e.t.c.However, according to the equilibrium phase diagram [1, 2] sulphides of lead and cadmium don't form a continuous series of solid solutions and their mutual solubility is decreaseswith the temperature: solubility limit of cadmium sulfide into lead sulfide reaches 38 mol. % at 1325 K and it does not exceed 9·10 -3 mol. % at 523 K. Probably the prevalence of high temperature methods of