In the present study, Lead Telluride films are grown by an inexpensive and template free electrochemical technique on stainless steel substrate through an aqueous solution of lead nitrate and Tellurium oxide. The electrodeposition was carried out by cycling between two potentials with different scan rates of 25mV/s, 50mV/s, 75mV/s and 100mV/s. In addition the electrochemical behaviour of PbTe were studied separately. In this method, by selecting precisely the electrolyte concentration, films were synthesized by varying the deposition time and electrode potential. The morphological and structural evolution of as prepared Lead Telluride films was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) study reveals that the Spherical shape grains are form and spread over the entire surface of the substrate and X- ray diffraction techniques which shows that the films average crystalline size is 27nm on stainless steel substrates and films shows the orthorhombic crystal structure. Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy gives the transmittance spectra of the synthesized films. The quantitative evaluation of the wetting of a solid surface by a liquid is estimated in terms of the contact angle measurements for the films.

KEYWORDS: Electrode potential, XRD, SEM, EDS etc.