Affiliation:
1. Riga Technical University
2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
3. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Abstract
A possibility to improve the quality of polycrystalline CdS thin film by Nd:YAG laser irradiation was shown. The CdS thin film was prepared by closed space sublimation method on ITO/glass structure and irradiated by Nd:YAG laser with intensity up to 15 MW/cm2. Several evidences demonstrated the improvement of the optical properties of the CdS thin film after the laser radiation: appearance of photoluminescence band at ~2.530 eV, which is attributed to bound exciton emission; appearance of “spike” in the reflection spectrum at ~2.573 eV between upper and lower polariton branches and the increase intensity of LO phonon line at 305 cm-1about 3 times in Raman back scattering spectra. Moreover, the increase by 20% of the size of crystals in CdS after laser radiation takes place, which was proved by using X-Ray diffraction analysis.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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