CdS thin film grown by aerosol-assisted deposition method

Author

Liu, Guogen ; Cheng, Zimeng ; Barat, R.B. ; Pan, Jingong ; Georgiou, George E. ; Chin, Ken K.

fYear

2012

fDate

3-8 June 2012

Abstract

Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) thin films are often deposited on glass substrates coated with TCO layers by the close-spaced sublimation (CSS) or sputter techniques in industrial because in-line production integration It is seldom reported that CdS is deposited by the chemical bath deposition (CBD) batch process. The bottleneck of CBD for commercial application is its low production rate and waste water treatment. In this paper, we report how to produce different thickness large area (100cm²) CdS thin film by CBD. We study how to increase the production rate. The influence of the solution temperature and concentration on the thickness of CdS is investigated.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; aerosols; cadmium compounds; liquid phase deposition; semiconductor growth; semiconductor thin films; wide band gap semiconductors; CdS; aerosol-assisted deposition method; cadmium sulfide thin film; chemical bath deposition; close-spaced sublimation; film thickness; glass substrates; in-line production integration; solution concentration; solution temperature; sputter techniques; Abstracts; Films; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0064-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317588

Filename

6317588