Abstract
Semiconductor nanoparticles are very attractive & interesting objects for scientific research of strongly confinement effects
& tailoring of band gap. Semiconductor nanocrystallites will dominate in future generation of electronic devices and growth
of science and technology. Among the various materials used for fabrication, cadmium sulphide (CdS) nanoparticles have
drawn much attention because of its potential application and variety of methods of its preparation.. The most important
information to be obtained from growth analysis concerns the sizes, the size distribution, stoichiometry, structure and the
interface configuration of the nanocrystals. Formations of nanoparticles have been characterized using various
sophisticated instruments like double beam spectrophotometer, X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and Transmission Electron
Microscope (TEM). Surface morphology & composition have been observed by SEM, Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and
XRF technique. Formation of bonds was examined by FTIR. Determination of size and composition observed from various
characterization techniques have shown that nanoparticles size is less than 6 nm.
Keywords
CdS, Nanoparticles, Properties.
Citation
J. BARMAN, J. P. BORAH, K. C. SARMA, Synthesis and characterization of CdS nanoparticles by chemical growth technique, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 2, 12, December 2008, pp.770-774 (2008).
Submitted at: Nov. 2, 2008
Accepted at: Dec. 4, 2008