Synthesis of hexagonal structured wurtzite and chalcopyrite CuInS2 via a simple solution route

Xia Sheng; Lei Wang; Yeping Luo; Deren Yang

doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-562

Synthesis of hexagonal structured wurtzite and chalcopyrite CuInS2 via a simple solution route

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2011 Oct 25;6(1):562. doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-562.

Authors

Xia Sheng¹, Lei Wang, Yeping Luo, Deren Yang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China. [email protected].

Abstract

Wurtzite semiconductor CuInS2 [CIS] has been reported in recent years. As a kind of metastable structure, it is a great challenge to synthesize pure wurtzite CIS at low temperature. In this paper, via a simple and quick solution route, we synthesize both wurtzite- and chalcopyrite-structure CIS. Well-controlled wurtzite CIS hexagonal plates are obtained when an appropriate agent is added. The influence of the used agent triethanolamine [TEA] has also been studied, and it turns out that without TEA, chalcopyrite CIS with a kind of rare morphology is formed through this method.