Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) film has been grown on well cleaned glass substrate by thermal evaporation technique under vacuum (5 x 10 -6 mbar). The physical characteristics of ZnSe film such as compositional, structural and optical properties were examined using energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX), X-ray diffractometer and UV-Visible spectrophotometer respectively. The EDAX study shows that the ZnSe film is almost stoichiometric. Polycrystalline nature of the film was observed from XRD analysis.

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... is revealed that deposited film has zinc blende system along with some amorphous phase present in ZnSe film and a preferred (3 1 1) orientation. The grain size and lattice strain have been calculated by Williamson-Hall (W-H) plot.Other relevant structural parameters (dislocation density and internal stress) have been calculated. The value of corrected lattice parameter has been determined using Nelson-Riley error function. The optical parameters (optical band gap, Urbach energy and extinction coefficient) have been found for the wavelength region (300 nm -1100 nm) by absorption spectra.