Optical Properties of Al- and Sb-Doped CdTe Thin Films

• Published in: Advances in condensed matter physics Vol. 2010; no. 2010; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: al-Douri, A. A. J., al-Shakily, F. Y., Alias, Maysoon F. A., Alnajjar, Abdalla A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Puplishing Corporation 01-01-2010; Hindawi Publishing Corporation; Hindawi Limited
• Subjects: Aluminum; Antimony; Cadmium telluride; Cadmium tellurides; Coefficients; Deposition; Optical properties; Optical transition; Solar energy; Thin films
• ISSN: 1687-8108; 1687-8124
• DOI: 10.1155/2010/947684

Nondoped and (Al, Sb)-doped CdTe thin films with 0.5, 1.5, and 2.5  wt.%, respectively, were deposited by thermal evaporation technique under vacuum onto Corning 7059 glass at substrate temperatures (Ts) of room temperature (RT) and 423 K. The optical properties of deposited CdTe films such as band gap, refractive index (n), extinction coefficient (ke), and dielectric coefficients were investigated as function of Al and Sb wt.% doping, respectively. The results showed that films have direct optical transition. Increasing Ts and the wt.% of both types of dopant, the band gap decrease but the optical is constant as n, ke and real and imaginary parts of the dielectric coefficient increase.