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Growth and characterization of nanocrystalline CdSe thin solid films

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In this paper we report the best conditions for growth of thin films of cadmium selenide (CdSe). The chemical bath deposition technique was used to deposit thin solid films of CdSe on to glass substrates. In this technique, cadmium acetate and sodium seleno sulfate were used as Cd2+ and Se2− ion precursors, respectively. 2-Mercaptoethanol was used as a capping agent. X-ray diffraction, atomic-force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis were used to determine the structure, morphology, and elemental constitution of these films. Photoluminescence studies revealed the effect of capping agent on the size of the CdSe nanoparticles. The optical properties were investigated by use of UV–visible absorbance spectroscopy. On annealing at 573 K, the phase of as-deposited CdSe thin films was transformed from metastable cubic (zinc blende) to hexagonal (wurtzite). The band gap energy for bulk, capped, and annealed films was estimated, and found to be 1.7, 2.3, and 2.04 eV, respectively.

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Acknowledgments

AKS thanks UGC, New Delhi, for providing a Major Research Project Grant. The authors gratefully acknowledge the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, for XRD and AFM studies, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for SEM and PL studies, the Defense Research and Development Organization, Delhi, for the EDAX study, and the Department of Chemistry, Govt.V.Y.T.PG. Autonomous College, Durg (CG), for the optical absorption study.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Government V.Y.T.PG. Autonomous College, Durg, 491001, Chhattisgarh, India

    Ajaya K. Singh

  2. Dr. Ira Nimdeokar P.G. & Research Centre for Chemistry, Hislop College, Nagpur, 440002, Maharashtra, India

    Soumya R. Deo, Lata Deshmukh & Garima Pravin Pandey

  3. Department of Physics, Government D. T. College, Utai, Durg, 491107, Chhattisgarh, India

    R. S. Singh

  4. Samtel Centre for Display Technologies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ashish Gupta

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Singh, A.K., Deo, S.R., Deshmukh, L. et al. Growth and characterization of nanocrystalline CdSe thin solid films. Res Chem Intermed 41, 535–548 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-013-1208-y

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