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Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 19Effect of Indium Nano-Sandwiching on the Structural and Optical Performance of Znse Films(Elsevier Science Bv, 2017) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.In the current study, we attempted to explore the effects of the Indium nanosandwiching on the mechanical and optical properties of the physically evaporated ZnSe thin films by means of X-ray diffractions and ultraviolet spectrophotometry techniques. While the thickness of each layer of ZnSe was fixed at 1.0 mu m, the thickness of the nanosandwiched Indium thin films was varied in the range of 25- 100 nm. It was observed that the as grown ZnSe films exhibits cubic and hexagonal nature of crystallization as those of the ZnSe powders before the film deposition. The cubic phases weighs similar to 70% of the structure. The analysis of this phases revealed that there is a systematic variation process presented by the decreasing of; the lattice constant, compressing strain, stress, stacking faults and dislocation intensity and increasing grain size resulted from increasing the Indium layer thickness in the range of 50-100 nm. In addition, the nanosandwiching of Indium between two layers of ZnSe is observed to enhance the absorbability of the ZnSe. Particularly, at incident photon energy of 2.38 eV the absorbability of the ZnSe films which are sandwiched with 100 nm Indium is increased by 13.8 times. Moreover, increasing the thickness of the Indium layer shrinks the optical energy band gap. These systematic variations in mechanical and optical properties are assigned to the better recrystallization process that is associated with Indium insertion which in turn allows total internal energy redistribution in the ZnSe films through the enlargement of grains. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Optical Analysis of Ge/Mgo and Ge/Bn Thin Layers Designed for Terahertz Applications(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2015) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.In this work, a 200 nm Ge thin film is used as a substrate to design Ge/MgO and Ge/BN layers. The optical dynamics in these devices are investigated by means of the reflectivity and the transmissivity measurements. Particularly, the details of the dielectric spectra and the values of the energy band gaps (E-g) are investigated. Below 350 THz, the construction of Ge/MgO and Ge/BN interfaces decreased the effective dielectric constant of Ge by 39% and by 76%, respectively. It also increased the quality factor of the Ge optical device from 150 to 1400 and to 940 at 300 THz. All the dispersive optical parameters are also evaluated. In addition, the direct/indirect E-g value of Ge which was determined as 1.15/0.72 eV is observed to shift down by a 0.13/0.42 and by a 023/0.54 eV for the Ge/MgO and Ge/BN devices, respectively. The sharp increase in the dielectric constant with decreasing frequency in the range of 353 273 THz, the dispersive optical parameters and the energy band gap attenuations of the optical structures are promising as they indicate the applicability of the Ge, Ge/MgO and Gel BN layers in terahertz sensing. The latter technology has a wide range of applications like medical and telecommunication devices. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 8Effect of Lithium Nanosandwiching on the Structural, Optical and Dielectric Performance of Moo3(Elsevier, 2019) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.In this article, we discuss the effects of lithium nanosheets on the structural, optical, dielectric and optical conductivity parameters of the MoO3 films. The nanosandwiching of Li layers between two layers of MoO3 of thicknesses larger than 20 nm induced the crystallization process of the amorphous MoO3. Namely, MoO3 thin films that are nanosandwiched with Li sheets of thicknesses larger than 50 nm, exhibit structural phase transitions from hexagonal to monoclinic and reveals larger crystallite sizes. The possible formation of Li2O at the MoO3/Li/MoO3 interfaces is simulated and discussed. Optically, the Li nanosandwiching is observed to enhance the light absorbability by 11.0 times at 2.0 eV and successfully engineered the energy bands gap in the range of 3.05-0.45 eV. It also enhances the dielectric performance. In addition, relatively thick layers of lithium (200 nm) succeeds in converting the conductivity type from n-to p-type. The modeling of the dielectric spectra in accordance with the Drude- Lorentz approach have shown that the presence of Li in the structure of MoO(3 )significantly increases the drift mobility values of electrons from 5.86 to 11.40 cm(2)/V. The plasmon frequency range for this system varies in the frequency domain of 0.32-5.94 GHz. The features of MoO3/Li/MoO3 interfaces make them attractive for thin film transistor technology as optical receivers being promising for use in optical communications.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 21Design and Characterization of Moo3 Heterojunctions(Elsevier Science Bv, 2019) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.In this work, the morphological, compositional, structural, optical and dielectric properties of CdSe which are deposited onto glass and onto MoO3 thin film substrates are investigated. The use of MoO3 as substrate for the growth of CdSe is observed to increase the lattice parameters of the hexagonal unit cell of CdSe and decreases the values of grain size and strain. It also forms band tails of width of 0.20 eV in the band gap of CdSe. The optical analysis has shown that the MoO3/CdSe interfacing results in blue shift in the energy band gap of CdSe and also result in large conduction and valence band of sets of values of 2.12 and 0.94 eV, respectively. The dielectric spectral analysis with the help of Prude-Lorentz approaches for optical conduction, revealed an enhancement in the drift mobility of charge carriers from 15.69 to 39.30 cm(2)/V as a response to the incident electromagnetic field. The free carrier density of the MoO3/CdSe being of the order of 10(17) cm(-3) with the large valence and conduction band offsets and the sufficiently large drift mobility nominates the MoO3/CdSe heterojunctions as an effective component of optoelectronic technology including thin film transistors.
