Adsorption and electrophysical properties of semiconductors of the InSb-CdS system

Adsorption and the electrophysical properties (changes in electrical conductivity) of thin film solid solutions and binary components of the new InSb-CdS system are studied by means of piezoquartz microweighing, IR spectroscopy and probe compensation in the temperature range of 273–353 K and a range of adsorbate gas (NH₃, NO₂) pressures of 0.2–9.8 Pa. The areas of physical and chemical adsorption accompanied by the charging of the (mostly positive) surface are determined. The mechanisms and regularities of adsorption as a function of external conditions and composition of the system are established, and certain similarities and patterns of changes in the adsorption and electroconductivity, and parallelisms of the “acidbase characteristic-composition,” “adsorption characteristic-composition,” and “electrophysical characteristics-composition” dependences are described. These prove to be useful in studying the adsorption mechanism and in identifying the most active components of the system relative to NH₃ and NO₂, proposed as materials for respective sensors/detectors.