Photoelectrochemical investigations of cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin film electrodes prepared by spray pyrolysis

Fabrication of large area nanorod like structured CdS photoanode for solar H2 generation using spray pyrolysis technique

“…Inset of Fig. 4 shows Tauc plot for the typical film B revealing its direct band gap as 2.4 eV, which is in accordance with the known reports [19,25]. In order to study the film surface morphology and to measure the film thickness, morphological and cross-sectional studies were carried out.…”

The deposition of thin films of cadmium zinc sulfide Cd1−x Zn x S at 250 °C from spin-coated xanthato complexes: a potential route to window layers for photovoltaic cells

“…Numerous techniques have been used to grow CdS and Cd 1-x Zn x S thin films including dip coating [16], electrodeposition [17], chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [18], aerosol-assisted CVD (AA-CVD) [19][20][21], chemical bath deposition (CBD) [2,8,22,23], spray pyrolysis [24,25], thermal evaporation [26], successive ionic layer and reaction (SILAR) [27], thermolysis [28,29], electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy (ECALE) [11], sol-gel spin coating, [30,31] doctor's blade, [32] and others [14,21,33,34]. Spin coating (SC) is a particularly useful method for the deposition of thin films [35,36].…”

Novel hierarchical CdS crystals by an amino acid mediated hydrothermal process

“…Compared to mono-morphological structures, hierarchical structures may show unique properties by combining the features of micrometer-and nanometer-scaled building blocks in one crystal [9][10][11]. Nano-/micro-sized CdS crystals show excellent optical and electronic properties and may have potential applications for solar cells, light-emitting diodes, hydrogen production, thin-film transistors, and photocatalysis [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Due to its unique properties and potential applications, considerable efforts have been made to develop effective approaches to synthesize CdS nano-/micro-crystals with different morphologies.…”