International Conference on MaterialsScience 2018 (ICMS2018)
ICMS2018UFAS1/ SETIF12–14September 2018
Elaboration and Characterization of Copper Oxide (CuO) Thin Films Deposited by the Spray Pyrolysis Method
Bellal Youcef*1, Bouhank Antar1 and Serrar Hacene1
1Thin films development and applications unit Setif, Research Center in Industrial Technologies (CRTI)
P.O.Box 64,Cheraga 16014 Algiers, Algeria
*Corresponding author: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
In this work, a copper oxide thin films were deposed by a simple and inexpensive technique (spray pyrolysis) on ordinary glass substrates at a fixed temperature T=500°C. and different concentration of precursor 15, 30 and 45 ml made with H2O like solvent.
The structural, morphological and optical properties of thin films of CuO were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and UV-vis spectrophotometry. The X- ray diffraction patterns confirm the presence of the polycrystalline phase of CuO as monoclinic crystal structure with preferential orientation along (110), (002), (111) and (020). Their optical band gaps ranged from 3.95 to 4.02eV with a high absorbency in the visible region.
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