Effect of annealing temperature and laser pulse energy on the optical properties of CuO films prepared by pulsed laser deposition | ||
Iraqi Journal of Physics | ||
Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 23, April 2014, Pages 97-104 | ||
Authors | ||
Mohammed R. Abdulameer; Ali A-K. Hussain; Kadhim A. Aadim | ||
Abstract | ||
In this work; copper oxide films (CuO) were fabricated by PLD. The films were analyzed by UV-VIS absorption spectra and their thickness by using profilometer. Pulsed Nd:YAG laser was used for prepared CuO thin films under O2 gas environment with varying both pulse energy and annealing temperature. The optical properties of as-grown film such as optical transmittance spectrum, refractive index and energy gap has been measured experimentally and the effects of laser pulse energy and annealing temperature on it were studied. An inverse relationship between energy gap and both annealing temperature and pulse energy was observed. | ||
Keywords | ||
Thin films; Pulsed laser deposition; CuO; Optical properties of thin films; Energy band gap; spectroscopy | ||
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