Preparation and Characterization of Spray-Coated Pure and Copper Doped Tin Oxide Thin Films

Authors

  • Ranjith Rajasekar J  Department of physics, St. Joseph’s college Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Sathyaseelan G  Department of physics, St. Joseph’s college Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Senthil kumar M  Department of physics Govt Arts college Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords:

Spray pyrolysis, Tin oxide, SEM, EDX, Optical band gap

Abstract

Pure and Copper (Cu) doped tin oxide thin films have been deposited from tin chloride (SnCl2) as a precursor and Copper chloride (CuCl2 )for doping onto glass substrates by spray pyrolysis technique at the substrate temperature of 400°¬C. The doping concentration of Cu was varied from 2 to 5 wt.% while all other deposition parameters such as spray rate, carrier air gas pressure and distance between spray nozzle to substrate were kept constant. The structural properties and optical properties of the as-deposited thin films have been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and UV visible spectroscopy. Also the chemical composition were analyzed by Fourier transform Infra-red Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The structural and optical studies were carried out on these films reveal their columnar and compact structure.

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Ranjith Rajasekar J, Sathyaseelan G, Senthil kumar M, " Preparation and Characterization of Spray-Coated Pure and Copper Doped Tin Oxide Thin Films , International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 3, Issue 11, pp.287-292, November-December-2017.