Assessing the Influence of Aluminum Dopant on the Morphological and Structural Characteristics of NiS Thin Film Material Deposited by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ugwu; Barnaba Abel Adeiza; Hilary Uche Igwe; Ikpughul Sunday Iyua

doi:10.62292/10.62292/njp.v34i4.2025.461

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Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ugwu
Ugwuei2@gmail.com

Nigerian Army University, Biu
Barnaba Abel Adeiza
Nigerian Army University, Biu
Hilary Uche Igwe
Ebonyi State University Abakaliki
Ikpughul Sunday Iyua
Nigerian Army University, Biu

Keywords:

Assessment, Aluminum, Structural and Morphological properties, Chemical Bath Deposition, Dopant, Nickel sulphide

Abstract

Based on the influence of dopant like aluminum on some sulphide based thin film materials it has become paramount to carry out an assessment of chemical bath deposited Nickel sulphide doped with aluminum has been carried with the intension to ascertain the impact of the dopant concentration on the morphological and structural properties of the as-deposited NiS thin film sample and the aluminum doped, AlNiS thin film with different concentration of aluminum. It was revealed from the result as obtained from the work that both the morphological and structural properties that there were tremendous effect on the crystallinity, grain-size as depicted in figures and computed values in which the values of the lattice constant, dislocation density, micro-strain and grain-size as computed at the same preferred plane within the same diffraction angles are found to vary thereby indicating that there is clear evidence of the effect of aluminum doping concentration on the Nickel sulphide thin film developed with aluminum.

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