X-RAY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CDS FILMS GROWN UNDER LONGITUDINAL ELECTRIC-FIELD

Thin films of cadmium sulfide sandwiched between aluminium electrodes were deposited at fields of plus or minus 35, plus or minus 65 and plus or minus 106 v cm** minus **1. This study suggests that the conductivity of the compound semiconductors which have a certain degree of ionicity may be controlled by optimizing the electric field at the time of film growth. Electrical quenching at the time of deposition under the influence of a dc longitudinal electric field is responsible for the missing or diffused lines in the x-ray diffraction pattern.