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Electrochemical deposition of cadmium selenide films and their properties: a review

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This review gives brief information of experimental conditions employed by different researchers for deposition of cadmium selenide (CdSe) thin films. For the films synthesized at room temperature, films should be annealed and etched to increase the solar cell efficiency. A photoelectrochemical study revealed that values of fill factor and efficiency of CdSe thin films deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide-coated glass substrates exhibited maximum value compared to the film deposited on titanium and stainless steel substrates. This review will be helpful to researchers entering in field to understand basics about the electrodeposition of CdSe and its development towards next-generation photovoltaics.

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HMP is thankful to the Departmental Research Development Program (DRDP), Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 07, for partial financial support.

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  1. Department of Electronic Science, AKI’S Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Camp, Pune, 411 001, Maharashatra, India

    Arif V. Shaikh

  2. School of Physical Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, 431606, India

    Rajaram S. Mane

  3. Clean Energy Research Centre, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Oh-Shim Joo

  4. Inorganic Nano-Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Sung - Hwan Han

  5. Advanced Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 07, India

    Habib M. Pathan

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Shaikh, A.V., Mane, R.S., Joo, OS. et al. Electrochemical deposition of cadmium selenide films and their properties: a review. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 2517–2530 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3552-0

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