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Thin Solid Films 520 2012 3485–3489 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Thin Solid Films journal home CdS thin ?lms growth by ammonia free chemical bath deposition technique A.Y. Jaber, S.N. Alamri, M.S. Aida ? Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia KSA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Cadmium Sul?de CdS thin ?lms were deposited by chemical bath deposition technique using ethanolamine Received 28 May 2011 as complexing agent instead of commonly used ammonia to avoid its toxicity and volatility during ?lm prep- Received in revised form 16 December 2011 aration. In order to investigate the ?lm growth mechanism samples were prepared with different deposition Accepted 21 December 2011 times. A set of substrates were dropped in the same bath and each 30 minutes a sample is withdrawn from Available online 30 December 2011 the bath, by this way all the obtained ?lms were grown in the same condition. The ?lms structure was ana- lyzed by X rays diffraction. In early stage of growth the obtained ?lms are amorphous, with increasing the Keywords: Chemical Bath Deposition deposition time, the ?lms exhibits a pure hexagonal structure with 101 preferential orientation. The ?lm Cadmium Sul?de surface morphology was studied by atomic force microscopy. From these observations we concluded that Thin Films the early growth stage starts in the 3D Volmer-Weber mode, followed by a transition to the Stransky- Optical properties Krastanov mode with increasing deposition time. The critical thickness of this transition is 120 nm. CdS quan- Microstructure tum dots were formed at end of the ?lm growth. The optical transmittance characterization in the UV-Visible Surface morphology range shows that the prepared ?lms have a high transparency ranging from 60 to 80% for photons having wavelength greater than 600 nm. ? 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights res