Solution synthesis of Chalcogenides

Polycrystalline chalcogenide thin films are of interest in photovoltaic cells. These wide area electronic devices need low cost fabrication methods. Solution methods offer this advantage and are also capable of producing films and scaling to an industrial level. This report gives a brief literature survey of the Chemical Bath Deposition method for CdS and CoS. The speciation of the Cd in alkaline solution is calculated using the Octave programming environment. A literature survey of electrodeposition of chalcogenides as an alternative to the coprecipitation of the Chemical Bath deposition method is described.