| Title |
UV/Vis investigation of CuxS thin films deposited on polypropylene by chemical bath technique |
| Authors |
Petrašauskienė, Neringa ; Alaburdaitė, Rasa ; Paluckienė, Edita |
| DOI |
10.15388/Proceedings.2022.29 |
| eISBN |
9786090707777 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
FIM 2022: International conference "Functional inorganic materials 2022": abstract book.. Vilnius : Vilnius university press, 2022. p. 69.. eISBN 9786090707777 |
| Abstract [eng] |
Copper sulfide (CuxS) is a wide-band-gap p-type semiconductor material with modern applications ranging from industrial to biomedical. Various polymers, modified by copper sulfides, represent a new class of materials – composites with novel properties. Polymers, modified by CuxS, are used as conductive substrates for the deposition of metals and semiconductors; as gas sensors functioning at temperatures tending to room temperature; as polarizers of infrared radiation; and as active absorbents of radio waves. Electrically conductive CuxS films can be prepared by the chemical bath technique [1]. Polypropylene (PP) is a low-cost thermoplastic polymer with great chemical, physical, and mechanical properties. CuxS thin films were deposited on PP (density 0.9 g∙cm–3, 150 μm thick) using CuCl2 and Na2S2O3 mixture for 16 h. The deposition process was carried out by repeating such deposition cycles up to 3 times. The aim of this work was to obtain CuxS thin films by the chemical bath deposition method and to determine the effect of the variation of the number of cycles of deposition on the optical properties with a view to ascertaining the possible applications. UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating the optical properties of a material. [...]. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilnius university press, 2022 |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2022 |
| CC license |
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