The semiconductors can be grown as single crystals. On the other hand, can we prepare insulator materials such as ZTS, TGS, ..... etc as powders or thin films with polycrystalline structure ?
Generally the thin films of CZTS are prepared by spin coating, but once in the laboratory we tried to deposit them on glass substrates by sol gel. It worked
Dear Abduh Mohammad Abdulwahab this is a very interesting technical question. You are absolutely right in that most research articles about insulator materials such as ZTS and TGS are dealing with single-crystals. I'm not a proven expert about these materials, but I assume that in this case a method like Chemical Bath Deposition could be useful for preparing thin films. In this context, please have a look at the attached pdf file entitled "Short Review on Chemical Bath Deposition of Thin film and Characterization". As for making polycrystalline powders of these materials, I may be a bit naive, but what about crushing single crystals using a mortar and pistil to obtain a powder?
Good luck with your work and best wishes, Frank Edelmann
P.S. I assume that you will get more expert answers to your interesting question when you either avoid or explain uncommon abbreviations such as ZTS and TGS. 😎
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