Tin Sulphide Thin Films Formed by Sulphidising D.C. Magnetron Sputtered layers of Tin Using H2S

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Thin films of tin sulphide (SnS) have been formed by a novel 2-stage process where-in D.C. magnetron sputtering was used to deposit to thin films of tin (Sn) and the layers then sulphidised using 5% hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas in Argon. Although it was not found possible to deposit high quality thin films of tin directly onto glass substrates, excellent layers of tin were produced by using molybdenum (Mo) coated glass as the substrate material. The chemical and physical properties of the SnS layers formed were determined using scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive x-ray analysis, x-ray diffraction studies and using reflectance versus wavelength measurements and these related to the conditions of synthesis. The data shows that it should be possible to produce conventional “substrate structure” devices based on the use of this technology.

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