Synthesis of ternary copper antimony sulfide via solventless thermolysis or aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition using metal dithiocarbamates.

ABSTRACT: Copper antimony sulfide (Cu-Sb-S) has recently been proposed as an attractive alternative photovoltaic material due to the earth-abundant and non-toxic nature of the elements, high absorption coefficients and band gaps commensurate with efficient harvesting of solar photonic flux across multiple phases of Cu-Sb-S. These materials are therefore highly desirable and sustainable and scalable deposition techniques to produce them are of interest. In this paper, we demonstrate two facile, low-temperature and inexpensive techniques (solventless thermolysis and aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (AACVD)) for the preparation of binary digenite (Cu_1.8S), chalcocite (Cu₂S) and stibnite (Sb₂S₃) and several phases of ternary copper-antimony-sulfide (

SUBMITTER: Makin F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8979952 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature