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Wurtzite cadmium sulphide (w-CdS) is a member of the II–VI semiconductor compounds. It possesses a wide fundamental band gap (∼2.5 eV at 300 K) and has been used extensively in photoconducting cells, being effective in the visible-UV spectral region [1]. The material is also attractive for nonlinear optical devices [2], heterogeneous solar cells [3], and other optoelectronic devices in the blue-UV spectral region. Because of the hexagonal (wurtzite) nature, it is optically anisotropic (i.e., optically uniaxial).
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Adachi, S. (1999). Wurtzite Cadmium Sulphide (w-CdS). In: Optical Constants of Crystalline and Amorphous Semiconductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5247-5_38
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