Greetings, we are a group of researchers having difficulty in preparing a thin film of copper sulfide (CuS) in the way of thermal evaporation, if you could provide your advice to get a thin film of this matter in good specifications?
Dear Hussain.
In addition to the answer provided by Frank T. Edelmann, I recommend to read the article titled "
Influence of Annealing Temperature on the Structural, Morphological, Optical and Electrical Properties of Cu7S4 Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Bath Deposition".
If you can not be able to reach the full text, please do not hesitate to inform me. In this case, I will sent the article privately.
Regards
CuS thin films can be thermal evaporation using Co-deposition technique of copper and sulphur. Your evaporator has to have such capacity to do so. Please see the following reference.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/73/1/012123
Hope it helps.
Thank you very much, for your attention, I was hoping for a convenient way of dealing with the compound rather than the process of evaporating the elements
CuS melting point is very low with reported value of 220degree C. You had better to use a well controlled source such as a source for the evaporation of organic materials. Use a crucible and heater. Bear in mind that you need to check your evaporator source power rate. For example, a heating source has maximum current or power that you could put your heater on. If a heater has a larger power rate than your evaporator source power rate, the evaporation wouldn't work. Hope it helps.
Dera Saleem Azara Hussain, cited below are two articles describing the preparation of cooper sulfide thin films by thermal evaporation. Both papers are available on RG.
Article Novel Covellite CuS Single-Crystal Thin Films for Optoelectr...
Article Synthesis and characterization of thermally evaporated coppe...
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