A New Facile Route for the Preparation of Single-Source Precursors for Bulk, Thin-Film, and Nanocrystallite I−III−VI Semiconductors

We report a new simplified synthetic procedure for commercial
manufacture of ternary single-source precursors (SSPs). This new
synthetic process has been successfully implemented to fabricate
known SSPs on bulk scale and the first liquid SSPs to the
semiconductors CuInSe2 and AgInxSy. Single crystal X-ray determination reveals the first unsolvated ternary AgInS SSP. SSPs
prepared via this new route have successfully been used in a
spray assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to deposit
polycrystalline thin films, and for preparing ternary nanocrystallites.