TY - JOUR ID - 15178 TI - Study of the properties of La-doped ZnS thin Films synthesized by Sol-gel method JO - Advanced Materials Letters JA - AML LA - en SN - 0976-3961 AU - Tounsi, Amel AU - Talantikite-Touati, Djahida AU - Merzouk, Hamid AU - Haddad, Hadjira AU - Khalfi, Roumaïssa AD - Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 216 EP - 219 KW - ZnS doped La KW - Nanoparticles KW - Thin films KW - sol KW - gel method KW - visible KW - SEM DO - 10.5185/amlett.2018.1963 N2 - The thin layers of undoped ZnS and ZnS doped La with different concentrations (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10%) were deposited on glass substrates using sol-gel and dip-coating methods. The structural characterization of these samples was carried out by the  X-rays diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). UV-visible and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) have been used to study the effect of dopant on the optical properties of ZnS doped La thin films. Atomic force microscopy images of the films have revealed homogeneous and granular structure and the SEM micrographies show deposit films with uniform and porous structure. The optical transmission spectra in the UV - visible range have shown that all the doped films present a good optical transmission in the visible domain. UR - https://aml.iaamonline.org/article_15178.html L1 - https://aml.iaamonline.org/article_15178_bf1ee2a0aed26f5332a390eb76da8ccd.pdf ER -