Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical investigation of physical vapor deposited barium sulphide doped iron sulphide dithiocarbamate thin films
By Siraj, Hajira; Ahmad, Khuram Shahzad; Jaffri, Shaan Bibi; Sohail, Manzar
Published in Microelectronic Engineering
Microelectronic Engineering
2020
Abstract
Current work has undertaken the synthesis of barium sulphide, ferrous sulphide and barium sulphide doped ferrous sulphide complex using dithiocarbamate (DTC) ligand as single source precursor for the first time in an in-situ mode. Doped metal sulphides were grown into thin films of 840 nm thickness via physical vapor deposition (PVD) on pre-sonicated fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) inside resistive heating unit (RHU). Prepared metal sulphides and thin films were evaluated for their crystallographic, compositional, optical, microstructural and elemental analysis via X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), ultraviolet visible spectrophotometry (UV-Vis), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and Rutherford back scattering spectrometry (RBS), respectively. An average crystallite size of 37 nm was exhibited by XRD. FT-IR peaks recorded in the range of 4000