Effect of thickness to the structure properties of CdO thin films

Abstract EN

In this paper CdO thin films were prepared by using chemical bath deposition method.

Three different thicknesses of CdO films (84.1nm, 165.1nm, 194.23nm) were used .x-ray diffraction technique has confirmed the formation of cadmium oxide, where reveals the changes in films structure with thickness increase.

Many structural properties and constants have been studied and calculated by using the formation from XRD patterns and ASTM chart such as grain size, FWHM, integral breadth, shape factor, texture coefficient, and number of layers .These structural constants were plotted as a function of the films thicknesses.

The results indicate that the high grain size (21.557nm) which was calculated for crystalline plane (111) was corresponding to the high film thickness (194.23nm), while larger number of layer obtained for the film thickness 165.2nm.