Citation: ZHOU Chao, WANG Dan, GAO Yan-Min. Fabrication and Characterization of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ (CZTS) Microparticles[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2013, 29(11): 2382-2386. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-4861.2013.00.376 shu

Fabrication and Characterization of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ (CZTS) Microparticles

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The college of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212003, China

Received Date: 2 May 2013
Available Online: 19 June 2013
Fund Project: 国家自然科学基金(No.51075197)资助项目。 (No.51075197)

Quaternary kesterite Cu₂ZnSnS₄(CZTS) micro-particles were successfully synthesized by a facile solvothermal method in ethylene glycol with the presence of Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as surfactant, using CuCl₂·2H₂O、Zn(Ac)₂·2H₂O and SnCl₄·5H₂O as metal precursor and thiourea as sulfur source. Different dispersion CZTS particles were obtained by different contents of PVP. The structure, morphology and absorption spectra of the as-obtained CZTS particles were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction(XRD), Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy(SEM), transmission electron microscopy(TEM), UV-V is spectroscopy. The results revealed that the structure of as-synthesized CZTS microparticles is kesterite;the morphology of CZTS has occurred a certain change with different contents of PVP. When 0.2 g of PVP was added to the reaction system, uniform and monodisperse CZTS MCs containing nanosheets were obtained. The nanosheets was more compact than the reaction system with 0.1 g of PVP. The band gap of the CZTS is about 1.47 eV, which approaches the optimum value for solar photoelectric conversion. Finally, a possible fabrication mechanisms of uniform and monodisperse CZTS MCs containing nanosheets was also inferred.
- Cu₂ZnSnS₄;solvothermal;polyvinylpyrrolidone
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