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Materials Sciences and Applications, 2011, 2, 1212-1218 doi:10.4236/msa.2011.29164 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Effect of Annealing on the Structural and Optical Properties of CuIn Al S Thin Films 1–x x 2 * Fethi Smaili Laboratoire de Photovoltaïque et Matériaux Semi-conducteurs, Tunis, Tunisie. * Email: smaili.fethi@ th th st Received March 13 , 2011; revised March 29 , 2011; accepted May 31 , 2011. ABSTRACT The effects of annealing of CuIn Al S thin films for different temperature, which were grown by thermal evaporation, 1x x 2 were investigated through X-ray diffraction (XRD ), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDS) and optical absorption measurements. Post growth was used to modify the structural and optical properties of the CIAS thin films. Then it re- alized in three different temperatures 250 ˚C, 300 ˚C and 400 ˚C. It is found that significant difference of the transparent films in function of annealing temperature. The FWHM in th e X-ray diffraction pattern is found to decrease with an increase in annealing temperature indicating that the crystalline nature of the CIAS improves with increase in anneal- ing temperature. The position of the (112) peak and other peaks in the X-ray diffraction pattern has been observed to shift to higher values of 2θ with the increase of gallium concentration. We demonstrate a significant enhancement of the inter-diffusion in the dot thin film. Keywords : CuIn Al S , Annealing, Structural Properties, Optical Properties 1–x x 2 1. Introduction defects and imp