Surface studies, structural characterization and quantity determination of PbSe nanocrystals deposited by chemical bath deposition technique

• Constant Pb:Se ratio stoichiometric determination of PbSe nanocrystals deposited by chemical bath deposition.

High quality PbSe nanostructural films are prepared by a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. The experimental surface studies including scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) have been used to analyze PbSe nanostructure indicated high purity of sample without cracks or holes in nanostructure scale. Quantity of material is relatively hard to measure accurately for thin films. Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) was used to obtain stoichiometry as well as thin film thickness. For all nanoparticles size (50–250 nm) we found that the Pb to Se ratio (Pb:Se) variation in depth is approximately constant value of 0.42±0.06 until near to the substrate where it׳s value diminishes.