Electrical and photoconductivity studies on AgSbSe2 thin films

Silver antimony selenide thin films have been deposited on ultrasonically cleaned glass substrate at a vacuum of 10−5 torr using reactive evaporation technique. The preparative parameters like substrate temperature and incident fluxes have been properly controlled in order to get highly reproducible compound films. The polycrystalline nature of the sample is confirmed using XRD. The dependence of the electrical conductivity on the temperature has also been studied. The prepared AgSbSe2 samples show p-type conductivity. The samples show a little photoresponse.