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Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 6Physical Properties of the Bi1.5zn0.92-2x< Solid Solutions(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2016) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Mergen, A.The Hf doping effect on the structural, compositional, optical, electrical and dielectric properties of the bismuth-zinc-niobium oxide pyrochlore ceramics is explored by means of scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible light spectroscopy in the wavelength range of 200-1100 nm, temperature dependent electrical resistivity measurements in the range of 300-460 K and dielectric spectroscopy in the frequency range of 0.1-1.0 GHz. The optimum solubility limit in the Bi1.5Zn0.92-2xHfxNb1.5O6.92 solid solution is observed for the Hf content of 0.06. Increasing the Hf content from 0.03 to 0.06 decreased the room temperature, lattice constant, strain, dislocation density, optical energy band gap and electrical resistivity. It also increased the crystallite size and the dielectric constant. The energy band gap of the pure BZN (3.30 eV) decreased to 2.21 and reached 2.10 eV as the Hf content increased from 0.03 to 0.06. This behavior of the BZN suggests its suitability for optical applications of the visible region of light like photovoltaic devices. In addition, the remarkable increase in the dielectric constant from 258 to 280 and 456 nominates the Hf doped pyrochlore for passive mode operation devices like microwave capacitors. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.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: 14Citation - Scopus: 15Investigation of the Physical Properties of the Yb Nanosandwiched Cds Films(Elsevier Science Sa, 2018) Abed, Tamara Y.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Al Garni, S. E.In this study, the effects of the sandwiching of a 70 nm thick ytterbium film between two layers of CdS on the structural, compositional, optical and electrical properties are investigated. The X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersion X-ray, visible light spectroscopy and impedance spectroscopy techniques are employed to achieve these effects. It was observed that, the nanosandwiching of Yb between two 500 nm thick films of CdS enhances the crystalline nature of the films without altering the lattice parameters. Particularly, the grain size is increased by 25%, the strain, the defect density and the stacking faults are reduced by 31.5%, 43.7% and 25%, respectively. Optically, the Yb nanosandwiching is observed to enhance the visible light absorbability by at least 2.7 times of the whole range and by 8 times at 1.64 eV. The enhancement of the absorbability is associated with shrinking in the band gap and more interband states. In addition, an increase in the real part of the dielectric constant by 54% is observed when Yb was nanosandwiched in the CdS structure. The modeling of the imaginary part allowed exploring the electron-plasmon interaction parameters. A remarkable increase in the drift mobility from 281 to 996 cm2/Vs associated with plasmon frequency enhancement from 0.84 to 1.38 GHz was determined upon Yb nanosandwiching. The effectiveness of this modeling was verified from the impedance spectra in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.80 GHz, which revealed wave trapping property of ideal values of return loss at notch frequency of 1.35 GHz. Furthermore, the electrical resistivity measurements on the studied samples have shown that the presence of Yb reduced the electrical resistivity and shifts the donor level closer to the conduction band of CdS. The studies nominate the nanosandwiched CdS for use in optical and microwave technologies as dual devices. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 11Post Annealing Effects on the Structural, Compositional, Optical and Dielectric Properties of Cd Doped Gase Thin Films(Elsevier Science Sa, 2015) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.In this work, the heat treatment effects at temperatures (T-a) of 200, 300 and 400 degrees C on the compositional, structural, optical and dielectric properties of Cd doped GaSe are explored by means of energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and UV-VIS spectrophotometry. The annealing process of the Cd doped GaSe thin films revealed a highly oriented orthorhombic structure type that exhibit a systematic increase in the grain size. While the strain, degree of orientation and dislocation density of the annealed films are weakly affected by the annealing process. The optical energy band gap of the doped films decreased from 1.23 to 0.90 eV and the exponential energy band tails rose from 0.16 to 0.23 eV when the annealing temperature is raised from 300 to 400 degrees C. In addition, the analysis of the dielectric spectral curves which were studied in the frequency range of 270-1500 THz, allowed to investigate the oscillator and dispersion energies and the static (epsilon(s)) and lattice (epsilon(l)) dielectric constants. The annealing process on the doped samples decreased the dispersion and oscillator energies as well as es. Oppositely, el values increased from 12.52 to 24.45 as a result of larger grain size and less defect density associated with annealing process when T-a is raised from 200 to 400 degrees C, respectively. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
