ABSTRACT
Most of the compounds deposited by CD have been sulphides and selenides. Apart from a very few examples of tellurides (and some related telluride experiments) and with a very few exceptions, discussed at the end of this chapter, what is left is confined to oxides (including hydrated oxides and hydroxides and two examples of basic carbonates.) This chapter deals mainly with these oxides. In addition, as noted in Chapter 3, there are a number of slow precipitations that result in precipitates, rather than films, of various other compounds, not necessarily semiconductors in the conventional sense. These potential CD reactions, briefly discussed in Chapter 3, will be somewhat expanded on in this chapter.
