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A comparative study of the physical properties of undoped Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and Al doped Zinc Oxide (AZO) thin films were performed as a function of annealing temperature. The structural properties were analyzed using X-ray diffraction and…
A simple pathway to grow thin films of N-doped MgO (MgO:N), which has been found experimentally to be a ferromagnetic d0 insulator, is presented. It relies on the catalytic properties of a Mo(001) substrate using growth of Mg in a mixed…
ZnO nano particles are synthesized at different percentages of Ag dopant by facile precipitation method. Two photon absorption (2PA) cross-section and nonlinear refractive index of ZnO nano particles are studied with 130 femto-second laser…
The modification and tailoring the characteristics of nanostructured materials are of great interest due to controllable and unusual inherent properties in such materials. A simple spray pyrolysis technique is used to prepare pure and…
Zinc Oxide is a thoroughly studied wide-bandgap semiconductor possessing excellent optical and electronic properties at room temperature. The renewed interest in this material has been generated by doping with various impurities in order to…
In this paper we report structural and optical properties of Magnesium substituted Zinc Oxide (Zn1-xMgxO) nanocrystals (~10-12nm) synthesized by low temperature route. In the low temperature synthesis route it was possible to reach x = 0.17…
Undoped and Mn doped ZnO samples with different percentage of Mn content (1 mol%, 2 mol% and 3mol%) were synthesized by a simple solvo-thermal method. We have studied the structural, chemical and optical properties of the samples by using…
Thin films of azopolymer-nanoparticles hybrid materials were fabricated with poly[1-[4-(3-carboxy-4-hydroxyphenylazo) benzenesulfonamido]-1,2-ethanediyl] (PAZO) and different concentrations of Ag and AgAu nanoparticles (NPs). By…
Thin films of ZnO:SnO2 were deposited on different substrates like glass and c-Si using spray pyrolysis method .The structures and morphology of the prepared samples films were cheeked using X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscope.…
We report the realization of Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) nanowaveguides and the experimental observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) in such structures, demonstrating their potential for integrated nonlinear photonics. ZnS thin films were…
In present study, Tetragonal Mn$_3$O$_4$ thin films of different coating layers of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 were prepared on the microscopic glass slides by the spin-coating method. X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and ultra-violet visible…
In this paper, Ni-doped ZnO films were grown on a p-type silicon substrate via spray pyrolysis. The Ni dopant concentrations were varied by adjusting the weight ratio between Zinc Acetate Dehydrate (ZAD) and Nickel Chloride Hexahydrate…
Cerium-doped manganite thin films were grown epitaxially by pulsed laser deposition at $720 ^\circ$C and oxygen pressure $p_{O_2}=1-25 $Pa and were subjected to different annealing steps. According to x-ray diffraction (XRD) data, the…
High quality ZnO thin films were gown using the pulsed laser deposition technique on (0001) Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates in an oxidizing atmosphere, using a Zn metallic target. We varied the growth conditions such as the deposition temperature…
The use of highly efficient and solarblind GaN photocathodes as part of multichannel plate UV detectors for applications in astronomy would strongly benefit from the direct growth of GaN on typical window materials with high transmission…
We report the synthesis and characterization of Nd_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}MnO_{3} thin films grown by the Pulsed Laser Deposition technique on 100 -oriented LaAlO_{3} substrates. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies show that the films are 101 -oriented,…
We report a simple and easily controllable method where a nano-undulated surface morphology of Nd1/3Eu1/3Gd1/3Ba2Cu3Ox (NEG) films leads to a substantial increase in the critical current density in superconducting YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) films…
We report on the synthesis of high-quality Co-doped ZnO thin films using the pulsed laser deposition technique on (0001)-Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates performed in an oxidizing atmosphere, using Zn and Co metallic targets. We firstly optimized the…
Optical and magneto-optical properties of ZnMnO films grown at low temperature by Atomic Layer Deposition are discussed. A strong polarization of excitonic photoluminescence is reported, surprisingly observed without splitting or spectral…
The effects of strain on a film of mulitferroic GdMnO3 are investigated using both magnetometry and magneto-optic spectroscopy. Optical spectra, in the energy range 1.5eV - 3.5eV, were taken in Faraday geometry in an applied magnetic field…