RETRACTED: Growth, structural and optical properties of CdxZn1−xS thin films deposited using spray pyrolysis technique

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors of Current Applied Physics as the authors have plagiarized part of a paper that has also appeared in Sol. Energy, 83 (2009) 1645–1651.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.The first author, Y.Raviprakash, accepts full responsibility and would like to state that he did not consult Dr. Kasturi V. Bangera and Dr Shivakumar regarding this duplicate publication.