Abstract
The optical absorption in flash-evaporated CuInS 2 thin films was studied in the photon energy range from 0.5 to about 4.2 eV. CuInS 2 was found to be a direct gap semiconductor with a gap energy of 1.524±0.005 eV at room temperature. The ground state energy of the free exciton was found to be about 8 meV. An indirect allowed transition was observed at 1.565±0.005 eV and was ascribed to an optical transition from the valence band maxima at the boundary of the Brillouin zone to the lowest conduction band minimum at the zone centre. Three further optical transitions which were probably due to the copper d states in the valence band were found at energies well above the fundamental edge.
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