Structural and optical properties of SnS nanoparticles and electron-beam-evaporated SnS thin films

Hydrothermal synthesis of alpha- and beta-HgS nanostructures

“…In addition, it is possible to observe the presence of a wide band that starts at 1250 cm À 1 in all the samples, which is assigned to HgS according to reference [25] and sim. Other similar inorganic compounds also present a characteristic band in the range of 500-1000 cm À 1 [31].…”

Reaction of Ni2+ and SnS as a Way to Form Ni@SnS and Sn2Ni3S2 Nanocrystals: Control of Product Formation and Shape

“…At the nanoscale its electronic gap can be tuned from 1.4 to 2.0 eV.T his leads to promising nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, thermoelectric, photocatalytic, solid state battery,p hotovoltaic, near infrared detector,a nd biomedical applications. [7][8][9] For interfaces,m ultilayer,o rc ombined functions, the reactivity of SnS nanoparticles becomes decisive. The same appliesf or interlayero rt ransformation reactions to multinary compounds as shown subsequently.M acro-sized SnS, in contrast, is known as as table compound that does not easily react with semiconductorso rm etals.…”

Development of sulphurized SnS thin film solar cells

“…Tin sulphide have been prepared using a variety of deposition techniques, such as spray pyrolysis [6,10,15,43], thermal evaporation [13,16,51,39], electronbeam evaporation [17], hot wall deposition [18], chemical bath deposition [19,55], successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction [20], RF sputtering [21], atomic layer deposition [22], chemical vapor deposition [23,45,46], electrochemical deposition [4,24,41,54] and sulphurization [25,26,55]. Among them, sulphurization is one of the simple method that can be used to prepare SnS films over large area deposition at low cost with well controlled composition and it has proved as a most promising method for producing high quality CIGS and CIS thin films for solar cell fabrication.…”