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OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages 69-74Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2015.12.008
Keywords
Chalcogenide glass; Annealing; Phase transformation; Thin films; XRD; Optical band gap
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- University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India [39-452/2010(SR)]
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Se75-xTe25Inx (x = 0, 3, 6, & 9) bulk glasses were obtained by melt quench technique. Thin films of thickness 400 nm were prepared by thermal evaporation technique at a base pressure of 10(-6) Torr onto well cleaned glass substrate. a-Se75-xTe25Inx thin films were annealed at different temperatures for 2 h. As prepared and annealed films were characterized by X-ray diffraction and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The X-ray diffraction results show that the as-prepared films are of amorphous nature while it shows some polycrystalline structure in amorphous phases after annealing. The optical absorption spectra of these films were measured in the wavelength range 400-1100 nm in order to derive the extinction and absorption coefficient of these films. It was found that the mechanism of optical absorption follows the rule of allowed non-direct transition. The optical band gap of as prepared and annealed films as a function of photon energy has been studied. The optical band gap is found to decrease with increase in annealing temperature in the present glassy system. It happens due to crystallization of amorphous films. The decrease in optical band gap due to annealing is an interesting behavior for a material to be used in optical storage. The optical band gap has been observed to decrease with the increase of In content in Se-Te glassy system. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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