EFFECT OF AIR ANNEALING ON CuSbS 2 THIN FILM GROWN BY VACUUM THERMAL EVAPORATION
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1 Chalcogenide Letters Vol. 8, No. 4, April 2011, p EFFECT OF AIR ANNEALING ON CuSbS 2 THIN FILM GROWN BY VACUUM THERMAL EVAPORATION A. RABHI *, M. KANZARI Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque et Matériaux Semiconducteurs -ENIT BP 37, Le belvédère 1002-Tunis, Tunisie The effect of air annealing on the structural, optical and electrical properties of CuSbS 2 thin films prepared by the single source thermal evaporation method has been studied. The films were annealed in air atmosphere for 2h in the temperature range C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns indicated that the films showed an amorphous structure for annealing temperature below 200 C. For the films annealed at temperatures below 200 C one direct optical transition in the range 1,19 1,89 ev was found. For higher annealing temperatures two optical direct transitions at 0,87 and 3.7 ev corresponding respectively to the CuSbS 2 and Sb 2 O 3 phases were found. A decrease in optical band gap Eg with increasing the annealing temperature was observed. Absorption coefficients higher than cm -1 were found in the spectral range 1,2-3 ev. All the films present p-type conductivity after annealing for all the annealing temperature. The resistance values of the annealed CuSbS 2 thin films are in good correlation with annealing temperature. (Received March 21, 2011; Accepted April 19, 2011) Keywords: CuSbS 2, Thin films, Annealing, Structural properties,optical properties, Electrical properties 1. Introduction The Optical properties of some I III VI 2 compounds (I Cu, Ag; III Sb, Bi; VI S, Se) are also promising, but so far less investigated. Copper antimony sulfide (CuSbS 2 ) is one of the important semiconductors with narrow band gap showing potential applications invarious optoelectronic devices such as infrared detectors and solar cells [1]. The optical properties revealed the presence of direct band gaps with energies in the 1.30 to 2.30eV range [2]. CuSbS 2 polycristalline thin films have been deposited by techniques, combination of physical and chemical deposition [3]. Chemically desposited, near intrinsic Sb 2 S 3 thin films and p CuSbS 2 thin films obtained through heating Sb 2 S 3 CuS thin films have been integrated in to a p-i-n structure [4]. Recently, considerable efforts have been done to gain a better understanding of structural, electrical and optical properties of ternary chalocogenide semiconductors because of their possible applications such as linear, non linear and thermoelectric devices and optical recording media [5]. Large area thin film semiconductor materials have been found useful generally in the areas of microelectronics, surface engineering, integrated circuits, etc [6]. So far, no works reported the effect of the air annealing on the CuSbS 2 properties. In previous studies we showed that the air annealing of the CuInS 2 films converts the films on to n-type conductivity [7]. Therefore if we would like to substitute indium by antimony it is important to study the effect of the air annealing on the CuSbS 2 properties, especially optical and the electrical. In this paper, we report the effect of air annealing on the structural, optical and electrical properties of CuSbS 2 thin films deposited by single source vacuum thermal evaporation. * Corresponding author:
2 Experimental procedures 2.1 Thin film preparation Stoichiometric amounts of the elements of % purity Cu, Sb and S were used to prepare the initial ingot of CuSbS 2. CuSbS 2 thin films were prepared by the evaporation of the CuSbS 2 powder in a high-vacuum system with a base pressure of 10-5 Torr. A molybdenum crucible was used. Thermal evaporation source were used which can be controlled either by the crucible temperature or by the source power. Corning 7059 glasses substrates were used. The asdeposited films were annealed in air atmosphere for 2 h in the temperature range C. 2.2 Characterization of the films Optical transmittance (Texp) and reflectance (R exp ) were measured at normal incidence, in the wavelength range nm, with an UV-visible-NIR Shimadzu 3100S spectrophotometer equipped with an integrated sphere. The films thicknesses were calculated from the positions of the interference maxima and minima of reflectance spectra using a standard method [8]. The films thicknesses were found to be in the range of nm. The absorption coefficients were deduced from transmittance and reflectance spectra [9]. The structural properties were determined by the X-ray diffraction technique using CuK α1 radiation (λ = Å). The film resistances were measured between two gold ohmic electrodes previously deposied by thermal evoparation. The type of conductivity of the layers was determined by the hot probe method. 3. Results and discussion 3.1 Structural properties X-ray analysis Fig.1 (a) and (b) showed that the crystallinity of the films increases by increasing the annealing air temperature. The films annealed at temperatures below 200 o C are amorphous. It may be noted that from the annealing tempearture 200 C, peaks assigned to (113), (109) and (213) planes appear which attributed to the CuSbS 2 phase. Beyond 200 C, more peaks attributed to the CuSbS 2 phase appear. In addition, the films annealed at the temperatures 250 C and 300 C show additional peaks, which can be assigned to the oxyde compound Sb 2 O 3. Consequently, only antimony oxides phases were formed and no copper oxides phases were detected. By comparaison, it is obvious that for the homologue amorphous CuInS 2 material (by replacing Sb by In), crystalline phase appears only by annealing the layers in air at temperatures higher than 200 C and we note the presence of the CuO and In 2 O 3 as secondary phases[7]. So, annealing CuSbS 2 in air does not leads to the formation of copper oxide phases as the CuInS 2 material and probably could explain its p-type conductivity. The CuInS 2 after annealing in air exhibits a n-type conductivity. In the other hand and from the relationship between crystal grain size and X-ray line broadening, described by Scherer s equation 0.9λ D = (D = average crystallite dimension, λ is the X-ray wavelength, β = the full-width at β cosθ half-maximum (FWHM), and θ the Bragg angle [10]). The average grain sizes of the air annealed CuSbS 2 thin films were found to be in the range nm by using the diffraction line 111 of the CuSbS 2 film.
3 257 (d) (a) T = 25 C (b) (c) (d) Intensity (a.u) (c) (b) 109 CuSbS 2 (a) θ ( ) Fig.1(a): X-ray diffraction patterns of CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures: (a) as-deposited, (b) 100 C, (c) 150 C and (d) 200 C. Intensity (a.u) (g) (f) (e) (f) (g) T = 300 C CuSbS 2 Sb 2 O 3 (e) θ ( ) Fig.1(b): X-ray diffraction patterns of CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures: (e) 250 C, (f) 275 C and (g) 300 C Optical properties Optical transmittance (T) and reflectance (R) spectra of the CuSbS 2 thin films were recorded at different annealing air temperatures in the spectral range nm. This range covers the fundamental optical absorption edge and the transition regions of the semiconductor materials. The obtained spectra are shown in Figs (2) and (3). The transmittance and the reflectance spectra show interference patterns with sharp fall of the transmission at the band edge, which is an indication of good homogeneity of the films. The averages of the transmittance and the reflectance values of all the layers in the transparency region ( nm) are 50% and 25 % respectively.
4 258 Transmittance (%) T = 25 C T = 300 C Wavelength λ (nm) Fig.2: Optical transmittance spectra of CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures. Reflectance (%) T = 25 C T = 300 C Wavelength (nm) Fig.3: Optical reflectance spectra of CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures. The dependence of transmittance (T) and reflectance (R) on the wavelength in the spectral range from nm for the different films were used to calculate the absorption coefficient (Fig. 4) using the équation [11]. 1 (1 R) α =. Ln d T Where d is the the film thickness. All films have relativety high absorption coefficients between cm -1 and 4. cm -1 in the visible and the near-ir spectral range. 2
5 Absorption coefficient α (cm) -1 T = 25 C T = 300 C ,0 1,5 2,0 2,5 3,0 3,5 4,0 4,5 Photon energy (ev) Fig.4: Absorption coefficients of CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures. It is well known that CuSbS 2 material is a direct gap semiconductor [12] with a band gap of about 1,53 ev [4]. Plotting (αhν) 2 versus photon energy, hν, yields a straight line indicating direct optical transition (Fig. 5). The direct band gap energy decrases from 1,89 to 0,87 ev by increasing the annealing temperature from 100 to 300 C. For the annealing temperature in the range C, a second optical direct transition was found at 3.7eV wich corresponding to the Sb 2 O 3 phase [13]. 3,0x10 9 T = 25 C (αhν 2 ev cm -1 ) 2 2,5x10 9 2,0x10 9 1,5x10 9 1,0x10 9 T = 300 C 5,0x10 8 0,75 1,00 1,25 1,50 1,75 2,00 Photon energy (ev) Fig.5: Plots of (αhν) 2 versus hν for the CuSbS 2 thin films annealed at different temperatures Electrical properties Fig. 6 shows the variation of the electrical resistance versus the annealing temperature T for the as-deposited layer, submitted to a thermal cycling for different annealing temperature values from 100 to 275 C. We note that from the annealing temprature 300 C, the layers start to
6 260 degrade by the detachment of the films. However, the values of the resistances in the cooling cycle are higher than the resistances in the heating cycle Fig.6: Variation of electrical resistance with annealing temperatures for the CuSbS 2 layers ( heat cycle and cool cycle). In the other hand, the dc conductivity σ (T) exhibits an activated temperature dependence, in accordance with the Arrhenius relation [14]: σ (T) = σ 0 exp (-E a / k T)
7 Here, σ 0 the pre-exponential factor. On the other hand the variations of Log (R) versus 10 3 /T for all the CuSbS 2 layers are shown in (Fig. 7). It was observed that for all the layers, R (T) varied linearly with 10 3 /T in accordance with the relation [15]: R (T) = R 0 (T) exp (-E a / k T) Where, E a is the corresponding activation energy and k the Boltzmann constant. The observed linear behaviors in the studied temperature range imply thermally activated conduction. There is a monotonic dependence of both film resistance R (T) and activation energy for conduction E a on chalcostibite films. It was observed that activation energy E a and film resistivity at room temperature R decrease continuously with increasing the annealing temperature. Hot-probe measurement confirmed that the conductivity is p-type for all the layers, in agreement with that reported in Refs. [4]. In previous works [7], we have been shown that after annealing in air the CuInS 2 material exhibits an n-type conductivity. So when we substitute Indium by Antimony and after annealing in air, CuInS 2 compound exhibits n-type conductivity where CuSbS 2 compound exhibits p-type conductivity. Consequently an heterojunction CuInS 2 (n)/ CuSbS 2 (p) is possible to develop. In this case CuSbS 2 with its high absorption coefficient offers perspective as an interest absorber material in solar cells applications ,50 13,25 13,00 12,75 Ln (R) 12,50 12,25 12,00 11,75 11,50 11,25 2,7 2,8 2,9 3,0 3,1 3,2 3, /T (K) Fig.7: Plots of Ln(R) versus 3 10 for the CuSbS2 thin films annealed at different temperatures. T 4. Conclusions Amorphous CuSbS 2 thin films were prepared by vaccum thermal evaporation technique. The effect of post-growth treatments in air atmosphere on the structural, optical and electrical properties of the as-deposited CuSbS 2 thin films is studied. The air annealing temperatures were taken in the range C. It has been shown that the annealing temperature must be grater than 200 C to obtain crystallizes material. All films have relativety high absorption coefficients between cm -1 and 4. cm -1 in the visible and the near-ir spectral range.the optical gap energy (E g ) decreases by increasing the air annealing temperature from 1.89 ev to 0.87 ev and the films become more opaque. A second direct energy gap at 3.7 ev was also found for the layers annealed
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