Optical properties of highly oriented nanostructured CuI (111) thin films

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Authors / Editors

Muiva, Cosmas

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Publication Details

Author list: Luhanga PVC, Muiva C, Coetzee SH, Maabong K, Tiedt L, Monowe P

Publisher: INOE Publishing House

Place: BUCHAREST-MAGURELE

Publication year: 2016

Journal acronym: J OPTOELECTRON ADV M

Volume number: 18

Issue number: 9-10

Start page: 837

End page: 841

Number of pages: 5

ISSN: 1454-4164

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

Transparent nanostructured copper(I) iodide (CuI) thin films of varying thicknesses were deposited by thermal evaporation of pre-melt quenched CuI powders and their structural and optical properties are reported. X-ray diffraction characterization identifies y-CuI and suggests that the films are monocrystalline in nature showing high crystallographic orientation along CuI (111). SEM studies reveal spherical granules growing in size with increasing film thickness. Thinner films were characterised by high dislocation densities. Optical studies revealed a red shift in the absorption edge and decreased optical band gap energies with film thickness.

Keywords

CuI, Evaporation, Nanostructures, Optical properties, thin films

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