Abstract
Sulphides of zinc and cadmium have been utilized effectively in various opto-electronic devices. In the present work cadmium zinc sulphide (Cd0.4Zn0.6S) thin film has been deposited on ultra clean glass substrate by a simple inexpensive screen-printing method using cadmium sulphide, zinc sulphide, anhydrous cadmium chloride and ethylene glycol. Cadmium chloride has been used as sintering aid and ethylene glycol as a binder. Effect of sintering aid on the optical and structural properties of prepared cadmium zinc sulphide film has been investigated. The optical band gap (Eg) of the film has been studied by using reflection spectra in wavelength range 325–600nm. It is found that reflection spectra suffer a drastic fall at two places, which is indicative of two band gaps of film viz. 2.38eV and 2.9eV corresponding to CdS and Cd0.6Zn0.4S, respectively. This is suggestive of the fact that cadmium zinc sulphide is a wide band gap semiconducting material. X-ray diffraction also confirms the formation of Cd0.6Zn0.4S composition.
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