Journal
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 1952-1961Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b02359
Keywords
metal chalcogenide; CZTS; metal sulfide; molecular precursors; spray pyrolysis; thin film solar cells
Funding
- BP through the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM)
- EPSRC [EP/R020590/1, EP/R022518/1]
- EPSRC [EP/R022518/1, EP/R020590/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A range of binary, ternary (CFS), and quaternary (CZTS) metal sulfide materials have been successfully deposited onto the glass substrates by air-spray deposition of metal diethyldithiocarbamate molecular precursors followed by pyrolysis (18 examples). The as-deposited materials were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (p-XRD), Raman spectroscopy, secondary electron microscopy (SEM), and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, which in all cases showed that the materials were polycrystalline with the expected elemental stoichiometry. In the case of the higher sulfides, EDX spectroscopy mapping demonstrated the spatial homogeneity of the elemental distributions at the microscale. By using this simple and inexpensive method, we could potentially fabricate thin films of any given main group or transition metal chalcogenide material over large areas, theoretically on substrates with complex topologies.
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