Quasi-ternary system Cu2GeS3–Cu2SnS3–CdS

Non-vacuum mechanochemical route to the synthesis of Cu2SnS3 nano-ink for solar cell applications

“…Until now, a number of techniques, such as solvothermal [8,9], solid-state reaction [10][11][12] and colloidal methods [13], have been used to fabricate CTS nanostructures. The nonvacuum mechanochemical method is also a promising method used to synthesize CTS nanocrystals, and offers advantages such as lower cost and non-toxicity of starting materials, and high productivity with a low cost production technology.…”

Core level photoelectron spectroscopy of LiGaS2 and Ga–S bonding in complex sulfides

“…Within the past few years many binary and ternary sulfide systems were evaluated in searching for new compounds with noncentrosymmetric crystal structure and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Among known crystals several binary and ternary thiogallates are showing high level of NLO susceptibility and pronounced ability for solid solution formation necessary for accurate tuning of optical properties by doping [1][2][3]5,7,[13][14][15][16][17].…”

Structural Properties

“…The diffraction peaks for the (112), (220), and (312) planes were also attributed to those for the kesterite-type structure. The experimental data are taken from Marushko et al [33]. The crystal structure of this pentanary alloy system was investigated by Rietveld analysis of the XRD data on the basis of the tetragonal kesterite structure over x = 0-1.0.…”

“…We plot in Figure The Cu 2 ZnGe x Sn 1−x Se 4 pentanary powder was synthesized by mixing the elemental powders and heating at 600 C for 5 h in an N 2 gas atmosphere [32]. Marushko et al [33] found that the stannite and WZ-stannite structures can be grown in the x regions~0-0.12 and~0.9-1.0, respectively. Figure 2.12 shows the plots of a, c, c/a, and a eff obtained from this analysis.…”