Single phase, large grain p-conductivity-type SnS layers produced using the thermal evaporation method

Patrick Nwofe; Kotte Ramakrishna Reddy; Gedi Sreedevi; Kian Tan; Ian Forbes; Robert Miles

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2012.02.043

Single phase, large grain p-conductivity-type SnS layers produced using the thermal evaporation method

Patrick Nwofe, Kotte Ramakrishna Reddy, Gedi Sreedevi, Kian Tan, Ian Forbes, Robert Miles

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Abstract

Tin sulphide (SnS) has the potential to be used as a low cost absorber material for applications in thin film photovoltaic solar cells. In this work thin films of SnS were deposited by thermal evaporation onto glass substrates and the substrate temperature varied to alter the physical and chemical properties of the layers deposited. The variations of the grain size, texture coefficient, and dislocation density with the deposition conditions are reported in detail. The SnS layers deposited were free from pinholes, slightly tin-rich, consisted of large densely packed leaf-like grains, up to 6μm in diameter and preferential (040) orientation

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	354-360
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2012.02.043
Publication status	Published - 2012

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SnS layers
thermal evaporation
structural properties

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Single phase, large grain p-conductivity-type SnS layers produced using the thermal evaporation method

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