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The chemical spray pyrolysis technique (CSPT) to prepare ZnS, PbS, PbxZn1−xS, (x=0 to 1), PbZn1−xSx and PbxZn1−xS,
thin films with (x = 0.01, 0.02) at glass substrate, has been used. The result of X-ray diffraction obtained that the films are
polycrystalline and have cubic with hkl (111) and wurtize with hkl (100) phases for ZnS films, the phase for PbS films is
cubic with hkl (200) and the phases for PbxZn1−xS, Pb1−xZnxS and PbZnxS1−x are cubic with hkl (200). The lattice constants
(a) have been calculated as 5.939Å for PbS films, 3.36Å and 5.44Å for wurtize and cubic of ZnS films, respectively, 5.91 to
6.2Å as x varied from 0 to 1 for Zn1−xPbxS,5.92Å for ZnxPb1−xS films with x = 0.02, and 5.921Å for PbZnxS1−x films with x =
0.01. The absorption spectra used in the wavelength range 200-1100 nm to calculate the optical energy gap which is found
to decrease with increase in the film thickness for all the films prepared by this technique. The values of energy gap have
been determined and it was between (1.58-1.78 eV) for PbS films, (2.9-3.1eV) for ZnS films. The energy gap of ZnxPb1−xS
films in the range (2.4-2.9 eV and (2.38-2.75) eV and of PbZnxS1−x it was (1.57-1.8 eV and (1.4-1.6 eV for x = 0.02 and x
= 0.01, respectively as the thickness increases. The optical constants, such as refractive index (n) and extinction coefficient
(k) increase and decrease with increase in the film thickness, respectively for all the films except ZnS films which are having
inverse properties. The dielectric constants (r, i) have the same behaviour of refractive index (n) and extinction coefficient
(k), respectively.
Keywords: Optical properties, Structural properties, Energy gap, Semiconductor thin film, ZnS thin film, PbS thin films
3 Results and Discussion the film thickness increases which are due to the
different effective thickness of the thin films16.
3.1 Structural and optical properties of ZnS films Table 1 presents the values of the real and
3.1.1 X-ray diffraction results imaginary parts of the dielectric constant at 600 nm
It is observed that for ZnS film of thickness (1300) wavelength and have the same behaviour of refractive
nm was found to exhibit diffraction peaks associated index and extinction coefficient.
with (100), (002) (101) and (103) reflections for the
hexagonal structure and (014) reflection for the cubic 3.2 Structural and optical properties of PbS films
structure of which the intensity of the (014) 3.2.1 X-ray diffraction results
orientation is predominant (Fig. 1 ). For PbS film of thickness (1038) nm, it was
The lattice constant (a) for ZnS thin films was observed from Fig. 2 that five diffraction peaks
(3.36Å) for wurtize hexagonal structure and (5.44Å) associated with (111), (200), (202), (311), and (222)
for cubic phase which are found to be in agreement also there are another two weak peaks associated with
with the result obtained by Ubale et al.9. for ZnS films (400) and (331) are shown. All the diffraction peaks
by chemical bath deposition using thiourea and zinc can be indexed to a face-centered-cubic rock-salt-
acetate as S−2 and Zn+2 source. structured PbS which coincide with the work of Ken-
Tye Yong et al. whose study is of PbS Nanowires17.
3.1.2 Optical characteristics
The different peaks for PbS film are indexed in
It is observed that the optical energy gap decreases
with increase of film thickness, as listed in Table 1. Table 1 — Values of refractive index (n), extinction coefficient
(k), real (r) and imaginary (i) dielectric constant for ZnS films
This may be due to the possibility of structural defects (at 650 nm wavelength)
in the films arisen during the time of their preparation,
which could give rise to the allowed states near the Thickness n K*10−4 r i Eg(ev)
conduction band in the band gap. In the case of much (nm)
thicker films, these allowed states could well merge 797 1.304 19 1.708 0.004 3.1
with the conduction band resulting in the reduction of 1036 1.282 12 1.640 0.003 3.0
the energy band gap14. This is similar to the results of 1306 1.274 09 1.620 0.002 2.9
many other researchers like Nadeem and Ahmed4 for Table 2 — Comparison of crystallographic data for PbS thin
ZnS thin films which were prepared by Resistive films with the JCPDS card 5-592 ( Ref.18)
Heating Technique. Standard data Observed (d) and (a) value for PbS film
The refractive index was determined from the d (Å) hkl d (Å) hkl a (Å)
reflectance data and listed in Table 2. The increase of 3.429 111 3.429 111 5.939
the film thickness causes an overall decrease in the 2.969 200 2.974 200 5.948
refractive index. The decrease is due to the overall 2.099 202 2.100 202 5.939
decrease in the reflectance with the increase of film 1.790 311 1.792 311 5.943
1.712 222 1.718 222
thickness. This behaviour is similar to the work of 1.483 400 1.486 400
Ubale et al.9 for ZnS thin films by thermal 1.361 331 1.362 331
evaporation technique. The variation of extinction
coefficient with the photon wavelength decreases as
Fig. 1 — X-ray diffraction pattern for ZnS thin film Fig. 2 — X-ray diffraction pattern for PbS thin film
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Table 2 as well as the corresponding values of the From Table 3, we can observe that the refractive
interplanar distance dhkl and compared with the index increases with increase of the thickness but not
standard values of ASTM data. systematically this is due to reflectance. The
The lattice constant (a) for PbS thin films was extinction coefficient decreases as the film thickness
5.939Å. This value is found to be in good agreement increases which is due to the different effective
with the standard value as shown in Table 2 which is thickness of the thin films, but not systematically as
5.94Å. No obvious characteristic diffraction peaks given in Table 3. This behaviour is similar to the work
from other impurities can be detected. The strong and of Debnath et al.20 thin films using Electron Beam
sharp diffraction peaks suggest that the as-obtained Evaporation Technique. The real and imaginary parts
products are well crystalline. of the dielectric constant for PbS thin films show in
Table 3 and have the same behaviour of refractive
3.2 1 Optical characteristics index and extinction coefficient.
It is observed from Table 3 that the optical energy
gap decreases with the increase of film thickness this 3.3 Structural and optical properties of Zn1−−xPbxS films
behavior is similar to result of Ubale et al.9 and 3.3 1 X-ray diffraction results
energy gap is found to be in the range 1.88-2.28 eV, X-ray diffraction pattern for Zn1−xPbxS film (x = 0
while the energy range found by the authors is in the to 1) was carried out with thickness 2000 nm and
range 1.58-1.78 eV. This difference refers to our shown in Fig. 3.
thicker films and different technique. The 100% intensity of peak (200) and lattice
constant of these peak are listed in Table 4. The value
Table 3 — Values of refractive index (n), extinction coefficient
(k), real (r) and imaginary (i) dielectric constant for PbS films of dhkl and lattice constant increase with increasing the
(at 650 nm wavelength) amount of zinc in the compound (Table 4).
Thickness n K*10-4 r i Eg (ev) 3.3.2 Optical characteristics
(nm) From Table 5, it can be observed that the refractive
550 1.424 44.78 2.028 0.0127 1.78 index and the extinction coefficient increase with
710 1.424 34.45 2.028 0.0098 1.68 increase in the thickness which is due to the different
880 1.484 35.20 2.203 0.0104 1.58
effective of the amount of lead in the films.
The variations of the real and imaginary parts of the
dielectric constant with the incident photon
wavelength show increase with increase in the amount
of the lead in the film. The absorption coefficient has
a high value at low-wavelengths (visible region) and
starts decreasing gradually towards the high
Table 4 — Crystallographic data for Zn1−xPbxS thin films
Standard data Observed (d) and (a) value for Zn1−xPbxS film
d (Å) hkl d (Å) Concentration (x) a (Å)
2.96 200 2.955 1 5.91
2.96 200 2.966 0.8 5.932
2. 96 200 2.972 0.6 5.944
2. 96 200 2.977 0.4 5.9543
2. 96 200 3.01 0.2 6.02
2. 96 200 3.012 0 6.20
Table 5 — Values of refractive index n, extinction coefficient k,
real r and imaginary i dielectric constant for Zn1−xPbxS films
with x=0.01 at 700 nm wavelength
wavelength of the ZnS thin films. But when you add film are indexed in Table 6 as well as the
the amount of lead to the film, according to the values corresponding values of the inter planar spacing
of x, we observed that we get shift in the edge d(hkl) and compared with the values of PbS film
absorption, where the value at x = 0 the edge at (111), (200), (202), with d value 3.418Å, 2.965Å and
wavelength 380 nm and pushed towards the 2.095Å, respectively and with obvious characteristic
wavelengths 600 nm when x = 0. 9, and this deviation diffraction peak from impurities from which can be
is causing the change in the energy gap. When we detected another unknown peak with its (2 = 33.278)
increase the amount of lead in the film we note that d value is 2.690Å which is due to the ratio of Zn. The
the energy gap decreases gradually to reach at x = 0. 9 lattice constant (a) for ZnxPb1−xS thin films is 5.92Å
to 2.43 eV. which is less than the lattice constant for PbS film due
This is attributed to the fact that the force bond of to existence of Zn. From Table 6, we can see that
S-Zn is found to be greater than the force bond of adding the Zn to the PbS leads to decrease the lattice
S-Pb. This result is because the zinc has constant.
electronegativity larger than for the lead. The
difference in electronegativity for bond S-Zn is 0.9 3.4.2 Optical characteristics
while the difference in electronegativity of the bond Decrease in extinction coefficient and imaginary
S-Pb is 0.3. Therefore, the energy required to break dielectric constant with increase the film thickness,
the bond S-Zn is higher than the energy need to break this is due to the effect of different thickness. It’s
the bond S-Pb, in addition to the lead has atomic energy gap decreases with increase in the film
number (82) which is greater than zinc (30), and the thickness and it is in the range 2.38-2.75 eV. At
large number of atomic electrons means that the link x = 0.02, there is the same behaviour of optical
be less to the nuclei which led to the transfer of an constants for ZnxPb1−xS with x = 0.01 9 (Table 7). It is
electron in an atom-level external lead easier than observed from Table 8 that the optical energy gap
electrons transfer to levels of an atom of zinc. decreases with the increase of film thickness. The
energy gap of ZnxPb1−xS films in the range 2.4-9 eV.
3.4 Structural and optical properties of ZnxPb1−xS films
3.4.1 X-ray diffraction results Table 6 — Comparison of crystallographic data for ZnxPb1−xS
thin films with PbS film
X-ray diffraction pattern for ZnxPb1−xS film (x =
0.02) was carried out with thickness1500 nm and Obser ved (d) and (a) value for Observed (d) and (a) value for
shown in Fig. 4. All the different peaks for ZnxPb1−xS PbS film ZnxPb1−xS film
d (Å) hkl a (Å) d (Å) hkl a (Å)
3.429 111 5.939 3.418 111 5.92
2.974 200 5.948 2.965 200 5.93
2.100 202 5.939 2.095
202
5.925
2.690 unknown
Table 7 — Values of refractive index n, extinction coefficient k,
real r and imaginary i dielectric constant for ZnxPb1−xS films
with x=0.01 (at 700 nm wavelength)
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