Browsing by Author "Aloushi, Hadil D."
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Article Citation Count: 14Formation, negative capacitance and negative conductance effects in Selenium stacked layers sandwiched with Ag nanosheets(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2019) Qasrawı, Atef Fayez Hasan; Aloushi, Hadil D.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, we report the nature of formation in the presence and absence of Ag nanosheets being inserted between of two stacked layers of Se thin films which are grown onto Au substrates. The Se/Se and Se/Ag/Se films which are prepared by the thermal evaporation technique under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar are studied by means of x-ray diffraction, conductance and capacitance spectroscopy techniques in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.80 GHz. Metal inducted crystallization processes from amorphous to hexagonal phases are achieved by using the Au substrate. The presence of Ag nanosheets of thicknesses of 50 nm between two 500 nm thick stacked layers of Se strongly affects the structural parameters through increasing the lattice constants, the microstrain and the defect density and decreasing the crystallite size. While the two stacked layers of Se sandwiched between Au and In metals displayed negative conductance effect associated with resonance in the capacitance and maximum microwave cutoff frequency (f(co)) of 0.68 GHz near 1.31 GHz, the insertion of Ag nanosheets forced the two stacked layers to exhibit higher positive conductance values and increased the f(co) values to 17.4 GHz. Ag nanosheets also caused negative capacitance (NC) effect in all the studied frequency domain. NC effect is associated with resonance-anti-resonance phenomena in the region of 1.33-1.37 GHz. The features of the selenium stacked layers make them attractive for use in microwave circuits as cavities, noise reducers, parasitic capacitance cancellers and bandpass filters.Article Citation Count: 5In situ monitoring of the permanent crystallization, phase transformations and the associated optical and electrical enhancements upon heating of Se thin films(Elsevier Science Bv, 2019) Qasrawı, Atef Fayez Hasan; Aloushi, Hadil D.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the in situ structural transformations from amorphous to polycrystalline upon heating and the associated enhancements in the structural parameters of selenium thin films are studied by means of X-ray diffraction technique. The Se thin films which are grown onto ultrasonically cleaned glass substrate by the thermal evaporation technique under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar exhibits structural transformation from amorphous to polycrystalline near 353 K. The films completed the formation of the structure which includes both of the hexagonal and monoclinic phases at 363 K. It is observed that the hexagonal phase dominates over the monoclinic as temperature is raised. Consistently, the thermally assisted crystallization process is accompanied with increase in the crystallite size, decrease in the microstrain, decrease in defect density and decrease in the percentage of stacking faults. The scanning electron microscopy measurements also confirmed the crystallinity of selenium after heating. The time dependent reputations of the crystallization test has shown that the achieved phase transitions and enhancements in structural parameters are permanent in selenium. Optically, the crystallization process is observed to be associated with redshift in the absorption spectra and in the value of the energy band gap. Electrically, the in situ monitoring of the electrical conductivity during the heating cycle has shown that the electrical conductivity stabilizes and exhibit a decrease in the acceptor levels from 566 to 321 meV after the crystallization was achieved.Article Citation Count: 3In Situ Observation of Heat-Assisted Hexagonal-Orthorhombic Phase Transitions in Se/Ag/Se Sandwiched Structures and Their Effects on Optical Properties(Springer, 2019) Qasrawı, Atef Fayez Hasan; Aloushi, Hadil D.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, two selenium layers of 500-nm thickness, nano-sandwiched with Ag nanosheets of 100-nm thickness (Se/Ag/Se), are subjected to in situ monitoring of the structural and optical transitions during heating over a temperature range of 303-473 K by x-ray diffraction and ultraviolet-visible light spectrophotometry, respectively. The Se/Ag/Se thin films are observed to exhibit a transformation from an amorphous to a polycrystalline phase at 343 K. Increasing the temperature above 363 K enhances the crystallinity of the hexagonal phase, reduces the microstrain, increases the crystallite size and reduces the defect density. Accordingly, the optical absorption spectra are redshifted upon heating. The redshift is accompanied by a transition in the energy band gap from 2.03 eV to 1.85 eV as the material structural phase is transformed from amorphous to polycrystalline. Increasing the temperature causes the energy band gap to shrink. Another permanent phase transformation from hexagonal to orthorhombic is detected when the Se/Ag/Se system is allowed to cool. Scanning electron microscopy images show that the phase transformation converts the grains of Se/Ag/Se films from wire-shaped to nanotubes. The second phase transformation causes a blueshift in the absorption coefficient spectra and increases the energy band gap. The structural and optical parameter enhancements achieved via heating render the Se thin films more suitable for optoelectronic applications.