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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 53, Issue 16, Pages 11562-11573Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-018-2420-3
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- CONACyT-DST [266406]
- PAPIIT [IN107815]
- SEP-PRODEP [511-6/18-829]
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This work reveals the effect of silver doping on structural, optical and electrical properties of Sb2S3 films grown by a citrate-mediated chemical bath deposition technique. The silver content in solution was 7.5 mol% with respect to Sb3+ ions. The films were deposited in a cold bath for four hours and subjected to thermal treatment in a N-2 atmosphere at 300 A degrees C for 1 h. Polycrystalline nature of Sb2S3 films with orthorhombic phase was confirmed in both undoped and Ag-doped samples by X-ray diffraction technique and Raman spectroscopy. Scanning electron microscopy imaging showed the presence of irregular-shaped interconnected particulate grains in the undoped films, while nearly spherical clusters of smaller grain size were observed for Ag-doped Sb2S3 films. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results revealed the incorporation of metallic Ag into the Sb2S3 lattice. A detailed growth mechanism has been proposed for the formation of Sb2S3 and incorporation of metallic silver in the host matrix. The optical properties were recorded by UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The inclusion of Ag in Sb2S3 films causes a red shift in band gap values from 1.75 to 1.66 eV. The dark resistivity of Sb2S3 films was decreased by one order on silver doping.
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