Journal
OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 124, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2022.111983
Keywords
ZnxHg1-xS; Zinc sulfide; Mercury sulfide; Chemical bath deposition; Dissimilar solubility products; Complexing agent
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Funding
- CONACyT-Mexico [CB10-156773]
- Universidad de Guadalajara
- CONACyT Mexico
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We successfully prepared ZnxHg1-xS thin films using chemical bath deposition. The amount of free Hg+2 ions in the mixed solution was controlled by using iodide anions to complex mercury. The films with different [I]/[Hg] ratios exhibited different compositions, as observed by scanning electron microscopy and UV-Vis spectroscopy.
We report on a strategy to obtain ZnxHg1-xS thin films by chemical bath deposition, to overcome the difficulties due to the enormous difference between HgS and ZnS solubility products (K-sp). Thin films containing the ternary compound were obtained using iodide anions to complex mercury, which allowed manipulating the amount of free Hg+2 ions in a mixed ethanol-water media, at room temperature. Three mercury containing films were deposited using different [I]/[Hg] ratios; along with a control ZnS film. The films obtained using the two lowest [I]/[Hg] ratios, contained mercury rich cinnabar crystallites over a ZnxHg1-xS layer, while the film with the highest ratio, contained zinc rich ZnxHg1-xS grains over a zinc rich layer, as it was observed by scanning electron microscopy measurements. UV-Vis spectroscopy results showed a ZnS-like absorption edge that shifts to lower energies as the ratio decreases, indicating an increase in the amount of incorporated Hg into the ZnxHg1-xS system.
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