SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF

SILVER DOPED ZnTe THIN FILM

Supervisor Co-supervisor
Dr. Amin Ur Rahman Dr. Khalid Alamgir
Associate Professor Head Training
( Riphah international university) (NINVAST)

Prepared By
Maria latif
(CMS # 20701)
Contents :

 Introduction
 Literature review
 Techniques
 Synthesis of ZnTe
 Silver Doping
 Application
 Characterization Plan
Objective :

Thin film semi-conductor is of the order of micro to nano-meter. The Purpose of

this study is material with doping and to get the low resistive ZnTe thin films .Ag
doped which leads to an increase of electrical conductivity of ZnTe. The
resistivity of as deposited ZnTe thin films is very high. However, the process of
doping can reduce their resistivity.
 INTRODUCTION
Thin Film :
 Two dimensional layer deposited on the substarte which range from fraction of nanometer to
micrometer.

ZnTe film :
 Zinc telluride (ZnTe) is an attractive II–VI semiconductor material
for optoelectronic devices like diodes and solar cells.
 Have a visible spectral range.
 It exists in both cubic and hexagonal crystal structure
 Melting point of ZnTe is 1238C
 LITERATURE REVIEW :

 Poortmans, and V. Arkhipov, Thin Film Solar Cells Fabrication,

J.
Characterization and Applications, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, England, 2006

 Pattar J, Sawant SN, Nagaraja M, Shashank N, Balakrishna KM, et al.

(2009)Structural optical and electrical properties of vacuum evaporated
indium doped zinc telluride thin film
.
 Akram K.S. Aqili a,∗, Ahmad J. Saleh a, Zulfiqar Ali b, S. Al-Omari work on
Ag doped ZnTe films prepared by closed space sublimation and an ion
exchange process in 2012
 Nazar Abbas Shah ⁎ , Waqar Mahmood , Physical properties of sublimated zinc telluride thin fi
lms for solar cell application from Thin Films Technology Research Lab, Department of
Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 46000, Pakistan in (2013)

 G. Sudhakar1,S. Lakshmi Rangaiah2, N. Lalitha Kumari, ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL

PROPERTIES OF ZnTe DOPED WITH Cd
SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS, International Journal of Science, Engineering and
Technology Research (IJSETR), Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2014
DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE OF THIN FILM :

 Chemical vapour deposition

 Physical vapour deposition
ZnTe Thin Film :

Thermal Evaporation

Tantalum Boat

Glass substrate

Vacuum by Rotary
pump (10^-2 mbar)

Diffusion pump high

vacuum (10^-5 mbar)

Evaporation
Silver deposition :

Thermal Evaporation

Molybdenum
boat

Silver

High
vacuum

Power
supply

Evaporatio
CHARACTERIZATION :

 X-RAY DIFFRACTION
 DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY (DRS)
 SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (SEM)
XRD (X-RAY DIFFRACTION) :

 Use for Structural analysis

 Average spacing between layers/atoms
 Orientation of crystal
Working Principle :
 Bragg’s Law
SEM :

 The scanning electron microscope is one of the most versatile instrument

available for the examination and analysis of the microstructure morphology
 Working Principle :
Used to visualize the surface of the sample .
APPLICATIONS:

Due to wide energy band gap II-VI semiconductor material used in optoelectronic
devices like :
 Solar cells
 Light emitting diode
 Detector
 Sensors etc.