Investigation of structural and optical properties of the sulfosalt SnSb4S7 thin films

Thickness dependence of structural and optical properties of cadmium iodide thin films

“…The growth of crystallize size and its distribution, as stated, depends on film thickness and deposition rate. Many publications have been determined both refractive index and thickness of thin films by measuring reflectance and transmittance using spectrophotometer [7][8][9][10][11] and measuring psi and delta using spectroscopic ellipsometry [12][13][14]. Both of which were a powerful techniques to investigate the optical response of materials.…”

The effect of substrate temperature on the optical properties of SnSb4S7 thin films

“…SnSb 4 S 7 compound was synthesized by the horizontal Bridgman method [7], and SnSb 4 S 7 thin films were prepared onto glass substrates by co-evaporation of the SnSb 4 S 7 powder in a high vacuum system with a base pressure of 10 À6…”

“…Sn-Sb-S systems are members of the IV-VI group of semiconductors which attracted some attention because of their interesting properties [2], and their potential applications in many technological fields such as: thermoelectric energy conversion application [4], phase change memory devices [3,5], X-rays detectors [3], and thin film solar cells [3,6]. SnSb 4 S 7 ternary semiconducting material is one of the most promising semiconductor materials which can be used in solar energy conversion and its high absorption coefficients [7]. As well known from the literature, any work providing a detailed explanation of the optical parameters of SnSb 4 S 7 thin films deposited by vacuum evaporation method has been reported so far.…”

First principles study of electronic and optical properties of the ternary SnSb4S7 using modified Becke-Johnson potential

“…It consists of elements, which are abundant in nature [7] low-cost non-toxic materials. SnSb 4 S 7 can be used as an absorbing material in solar cells [8]. Unfortunately, the fundamental physical properties of these materials are not well understood.…”

“…The compound SnSb 4 S 7 has a monoclinic structure with the space group P2 1 /m, the lattice parameters a¼ 11.331 Å, b¼3.865 Å and c ¼13.940 Å, which are used in our calculations, along with the interatomic distances and bond angles as shown in refs. [8,12].…”