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Investigation of some physical and photoconductive properties of sprayed CuS2 film

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Copper sulfide (CuS2) has been prepared by spray pyrolysis process. Structural and morphological properties of prepared sample were investigated by XRD and AFM. The X-ray diffraction showed that the structure of this film is cubic. The film surface was homogenous and dense. The UV absorbance and reflectance spectra show a high absorbance with gap energy of 1.87 eV estimated by Tauc’s model. The photoconductive studies reveal that the photocurrent versus light intensity and polarization follows a power low and linear trend, respectively. In addition, the CuS2 film had excellent stability. AC conductivity (Gac) reveals the semiconductor behavior and the activation energy is estimated to be 0.5 eV. It is also obvious that the conductance AC follows jonscher’s universal power law. The exponent “s” decreases with temperature increase, showing that the conduction phenomena is related to Correlated Barrier Hopping (CBH). The imaginary and real impedance parts are plotted in Nyquist diagrams and an equivalent circuit is deduced. Consequently, the prepared CuS2 film is suitable for optoelectronic applications, such as solar cells and photodetector.

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This research was partly supported by the projects HP-NANOBIO Project PID2019-111163RB-I00, granted by Spanish Ministry of Science, and Project CIVP18A3940, granted by Fundación Ramón Areces, Spain. CVV thanks Xunta de Galicia (Spain) for the AEMAT (ED431E-2018/08) Strategic Partnership and the use of RIAIDT-USC analytical facilities. CVV belongs to the Galician Competitive Research Group ED431C-2017/22, co-funded by FEDER.

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    N. Bouguila, Y. Bchiri, M. Kraini, N. Hafienne & S. Alaya

  2. Laboratoire Des Matériaux, Molécules Et Applications IPEST, Université de Carthage, BP 51, La Marsa 2070, Tunis, Tunisia

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  3. Laboratory of Magnetism and Nanotechnology (NANOMAG), Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Universidade de, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Conception and design of study: N. Bouguila and Y. Bchiri. Acquisition of data: N. Bouguila, Y. Bchiri, M. Kraini, R. Souissi, and N. Hafienne. Analysis and/or interpretation of data: N. Bouguila, Y. Bchiri, M. Kraini, R. Souissi, C. Vasquez-Vasquez, and S. Alaya. Drafting the manuscript: N. Bouguila, Y. Bchiri, R. Souissi, and N. Hafienne. Revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: C. Vasquez-Vasquez and S. Alaya. Approval of the version of the manuscript to be published: N. Bouguila Y. Bchiri, M. Kraini, R. Souissi, N. Hafienne, C. Vasquez-Vasquez, and S. Alaya.

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Bouguila, N., Bchiri, Y., Kraini, M. et al. Investigation of some physical and photoconductive properties of sprayed CuS2 film. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 3810–3821 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-07572-0

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