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SYNTHESIS OF CADMIUM SULFIDE

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 15746
Amount: $50,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1991
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
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4215 Al 72e
Brownsboro, AL 35741
United States
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Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Billy R Aldrich
 Principal Investigator
 (205) 544-7760
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Abstract

IN PHASE I, A SYSTEMATIC AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION ON THE SYNTHESIS OF CADMIUM SULFIDE WILL BE CONDUCTED. CADMIUM SULFIDE (CDS) WILL BE SYNTHESIZED BY TWO METHODS: 1. SPONTANEOUS REACTION BETWEEN DIMETHYLCADMIUM AND HYDROGEN SULFIDE, AND 2. REACTION OF CADMIUM AND SULFUR ELEMENTS BY VAPOR DEPOSITION. THE CDS POWDER OBTAINED FROM THESE TWO TECHNIQUES WILL BE HEAT-TREATED BY BAKING OUT AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES UNDER VACUUM CONDITION TO ADJUST ITS STOICHIOMETRY. VARIOUS ANALYSES, INCLUDING ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY, SPARK SOURCE MASS SPECTROSCOPY AND ENERGY DISPERSION OF X-RAY ANALYSIS, WILL BE PERFORMED ON EACH BATCH OF CDS TO CHARACTERIZE THE PURITY AND STOICHIOMETRY. THE OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS PARAMETERS WILL BE ESTABLISHED.

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