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Thickness-dependent performance of antimony sulfide thin films as a photoanode for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting.

D M Kavya, Y N Sudhakar, A Timoumi, Y Raviprakash

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Article in RSC advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

D M KavyaDepartment of Physics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal-576104 India raviprakash.y@manipal.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9292-2496
Y N SudhakarDepartment of Chemistry, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal 576104 Karnataka India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5051-4438
A TimoumiDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Umm Al-Qura University 21955 Makkah Saudi Arabia.
Y RaviprakashDepartment of Physics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal-576104 India raviprakash.y@manipal.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1766-5394

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A two-step synthesis approach is employed for antimony sulfide thin films, which includes thermal evaporation followed by annealing in a sulfur atmosphere using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The thickness of the films is systematically varied to study its impact on the material's properties. The orthorhombic crystal structure of each film is verified by Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD) analysis. Raman spectroscopy reveals thickness-dependent changes in the vibrational properties. Surface morphology and roughness are examined using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), with findings indicating that layer thickness significantly affects these surface characteristics. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) demonstrate that variations in film thickness influence the surface chemical composition and oxidation states. The Sb

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