Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vapor growth and optimization of supersaturation for tailoring the physical properties of stoichiometric Sb2Se3 crystalline habits Description An account of the resource The evolution of different morphologies (fibers, whiskers, needles, and spherulites) of antimony selenide (Sb2Se3), devoid of foreign chemical elements, was explored by the physical vapor deposition (PVD) method, employing an indigenously assembled tubular furnace, which showed layer growth mode as per the metallurgical and scanning electron micrographs. Supersaturation for crystallization was optimized by precisely controlling the difference in temperatures of nutrient and growth zones, ?T = TN ? TG, where ?T = 125 to 350C. The strain and dislocation density of the crystals were evaluated from the crystallographic data. Monophase nature has been confirmed by Rietveld refinement analysis of the PXRD findings, using Full Proof software. UVVis-NIR and PL spectra of the morphologies revealed band gap, Eg in the range, 1.151.18eV. Among these habits, good-quality whiskers bearing flat faces of appreciable crystallinity, stoichiometry, thermal stability and mechanical strength were produced due to the periodic deposition of atoms associated with the progression of smooth vaporsolid (v?) interface as evident from PXRD, EDAX, XPS, TGA and microindentation analyses. Hall effect measurements resulted in obtaining appreciable values of electrical parameters, ? = 145.36 ? cm and n = 7.39 1018cm?3 for PV applications. Moreover, optical studies justified direct transition with adequate photon absorption which promises the suitability of whiskers as absorbers in the energy conversion process. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bibin J.; Kunjomana A.G.; Teena M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol-33, No. 19, pp. 15814-15833. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08483-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08483-4</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132132236&amp;doi=10.1007%2Fs10854-022-08483-4&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=0ce1eeccd7d8c86ad1959ec4c29291f1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132132236&amp;doi=10.1007%2fs10854-022-08483-4&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=0ce1eeccd7d8c86ad1959ec4c29291f1</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 9574522 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Bibin J., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560029, India; Kunjomana A.G., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560029, India; Teena M., Department of Physics, St. Thomas College, Kerala, Palai, 686574, India