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Effect of manganese doping on the structural, morphological and optical properties of zinc selenide thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition method

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Undoped and manganese (Mn)-doped zinc selenide (ZnSe) thin films with different Mn doping contents (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 at. wt%) were prepared in an acidic medium and deposited on glass substrates at 80 °C for 1 h using the chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. The effect of Mn doping concentration on the structural, morphological, optical and photoluminescence properties of Mn-doped ZnSe films was investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), UV–visible spectrophotometry and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. XRD patterns exhibited a cubic structure with a preferential orientation along the (111) plane for all deposited films. The Zn–Se vibration bond was identified in all films by FT-IR spectroscopy. SEM micrographs showed that the grains are spherical and homogeneously dispersed over the surface of the substrates. AFM images indicated that film morphology and surface roughness were affected by the Mn doping content. The UV-visible transmittance results revealed that all of the obtained films were highly transparent, with average visible transmission values ranging from 70 to 87%. Room temperature PL spectra demonstrate the presence of blue and green emissions in all the samples.

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The authors are grateful to Mr A. Djermoune, Laboratory of Materials Technology and Process Engineering (LTMGP), University of Bejaia, Algeria, for the X-ray diffraction analyses.

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    Roumaissa Khalfi, Djahida Talantikite-Touati & Amel Tounsi

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Université de Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algérie

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  5. Laboratoire de Chimie, Ingénierie Moléculaire et Nanostructures, Université Ferhat Abbas-Setif 1, 19000, Setif, Algérie

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RK contributed to conceptualization, methodology and writing—original draft. DT-T contributed to conceptualization, writing—original draft and supervision. AT contributed to methodology. AS carried out the PL measurements. FA merzeg carried out the SEM analyses. AA carried out the AFM analyses.

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Khalfi, R., Talantikite-Touati, D., Tounsi, A. et al. Effect of manganese doping on the structural, morphological and optical properties of zinc selenide thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition method. Appl. Phys. A 129, 231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06515-2

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