%0 Journal Article
%T Fabrication, Characterization and Optical Properties of CuIn<sub>3</sub>Se<sub>5</sub> Bulk Compounds
%A Dayane Habib
%A Ouloum Aoud¨¦
%A Slyman Karishy
%A Georges El Haj Moussa
%J World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics
%P 201-208
%@ 2160-6927
%D 2015
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjcmp.2015.53021
%X The present work prepared the CuIn<sub>3</sub>Se<sub>5</sub> ingots by using a horizontal Bridgman method and investigated the Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) to calculate the compositions of the ingots. Photoluminescence was used to check their optical properties. It was found that CuIn<sub>3</sub>Se<sub>5</sub> had either a Stanite structure, an Ordered Defect Chalcopyrite (ODC) structure, or an Ordered Vacancy Chalcopyrite (OVC) structure. The gap energy obtained by Photoluminescence (PL) for the different samples is 1.23 eV. Studying the variation of the gap as a function of the temperature shows that the transition is a D-A type.
%K Chalcopyrite
%K Photovoltaic
%K Photoluminescence
%K Optical Response
%K X-Ray Diffraction
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=58885