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    Material Characterization of Thermally Evaporated Znsn2te4< Thin Films
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2019) Gullu, H. H.
    Polycrystalline and stoichiometric ZnSn2Te4 (ZST) thin films were deposited on glass substrates by sequential evaporation of elemental powder sources. The deposited films were annealed in nitrogen atmosphere at annealing temperature ranging 100-300 degrees C. Under post-annealing treatments, the composition, structural, surface morphological, optical and electrical characteristics of the films were investigated. Annealing treatments lead to maintain the structural characteristics with the possible change in atomic concentration of the constituent elements in limit of detection and crystallinity of the films increased with increasing annealing temperature. Grainy surface morphology was observed in as-grown and annealed films and densely packed appearance of the surface of the samples indicates uniform deposition of the film over the entire substrate surface. Under the aim of visible light harvesting in the applications of thin film photovoltaics, normal-incidence transmittance measurements were performed and the direct band gap values were found in the range of 1.8-2.1 eV. Temperature dependent conductivity characteristics of the films were investigated under dark condition and the observed conductivity profiles were found in Arrhenius behavior with temperature dominated by the thermionic emission model.
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    Plasmon-Electron Dynamics at the Au/Inse and Y/Inse Interfaces Designed as Dual Gigahertz-Terahertz Filters
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2017) Alharbi, S. R.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In this work, the X-ray diffraction, the Scanning electron microscopy, the energy dispersive X-ray, the Raman, The UV-vis light and the impedance spectral techniques are employed to explore the structural, vibrational, optical and electrical properties of the Au/InSe and Y/InSe thin film interfaces. It was shown that with its amorphous nature of crystallization, the InSe thin films exhibited n-type conductivity due to the 3% excess selenium. For this form of InSe, the only active Raman spectral line is 121 (cm(-1)). In addition to the design of the energy band diagram, the analysis the dielectric spectra and the optical conductivities were possible in the frequency range of 270-1000 THz. The modeling of the optical conductivities of the Au, Y, Au/InSe and Y/InSe with the help of Lorentz approach for optical conduction, assured that the conduction is dominated by the resonant plasmon-electron interactions at the metals and metals/semiconductors interfaces. It also allowed tabulating the necessary parameters for possible applications in terahertz technology: These parameters are the electron effective masses, the free electron densities, the electron bounded plasmon frequencies, the electron scattering times, the reduced resonant frequencies and the drift mobilities. On the other hand, the impedance spectral analysis of the Y/InSe/Au interfaces in the frequency range of 0.01-1.80 GHz, revealed negative capacitance effect associated with band filter features that exhibit maximum transition line at 1.17 GHz. This value nominates the interface as a member of filter classes in the gigahertz technology. (C) 2017 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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    Temperature-Tuned Band Gap Energy and Oscillator Parameters of Gas0.5se0.5< Single Crystals
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2016) Isik, Mehmet; Tugay, Evrin; Gasanly, Nizami
    Temperature-dependent transmission and room temperature reflection measurements were carried out on GaS0.5Se0.5 single crystal in the wavelength range of 380-1000 nm to investigate its optical parameters. The analysis of the temperature-dependent absorption data showed that direct and indirect band gap energies increase from 2.36 to 2.50 eV and 2.27 to 2.40 eV, respectively, as temperature is decreased from 300 to 10 K. The rates of change of the direct and indirect band gap energies with temperature was found around -7.4 x 10(-4) eV/K from the analysis of experimental data under the light of theoretical relation giving the band gap energy as a function of temperature. The absolute zero value of the band gap energies were also found from the same analysis as 2.50 eV (for direct) and 2.40 eV (for indirect). Wemple-DiDomenico single effective oscillator model, Sellmeier oscillator model and Spitzer-Fan model were used for the room temperature reflection data to find optical parameters of the crystal. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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    Enhancement of Photoconductive Performance of Cdse Via Yb Nanosandwiching
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2018) Qasrawi, A. F.
    In this work, we have explored the effects of the ytterbium nanosandwiching on the structural and optoelectronic properties of CdSe thin films. A ytterbium layer of thickness of 200 nm was sandwiched between two layers of CdSe (1.0 mu m). The structural investigations have shown that the hexagonal structure of CdSe is deformed by 1.9% and 0.8% along the a and c - axes, respectively, by the inclusion of the Yb in the structure of CdSe. In addition, a systematic redshifts in the interference patterns of the optical transmittance and reflectance were observed. Accordingly, the optical absorption coefficient spectra of CdSe which displayed two energy gap values of 1.62 and 1.36 eV, are also redshifted. On the other hand, when exposed to blue light irradiation, the steady state and time dependent photocurrent analysis revealed a remarkable enhancement presented by a three orders of magnitude increase in the responsivity of CdSe upon Yb sandwiching. The photocurrent was observed to be limited by the saturation of the surface states and traps that causes longer relaxation constant compared to that of pure CdSe. (C) 2017 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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    Growth and Characterization of Inse/Ge Interfaces
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2017) Al Garni, S. E.; Omareye, Olfat A.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In the current study, we report the effect of insertion of a 200 nm thick Ge film between two layers of InSe. The Ge sandwiched InSe films are studied by means of X-ray diffraction technique, energy dispersion X-ray spectroscopy attached to a scanning electron microscope, optical spectrophotometry and light power dependent photoconductivity. It was observed that, The InSe prefers the growth of InSe monophase when deposited onto glass and the growth of gamma-In2Se3 when deposited onto InSe/Ge substrate. The three layers interface (InSe/Ge/gamma-In2Se3) exhibits a Ge induced crystallization process at annealing temperature of 200 degrees C. The optical analysis has shown that the InSe films exhibit a redshift upon Ge sandwiching. In addition, the conduction and valence bands offsets at the first interface (InSe/Ge) and at the second (Ge/gamma-In2Se3) interface are found to be 0.55 eV and 1.0 eV, and 0.40eVand 1.38 eV, respectively. Moreover, the photocurrent of the Ge sandwiched InSe exhibited higher photocurrent values as compared to those of InSe. On the other hand, the dielectric spectral analysis and modeling which lead to the identifying of the optical conduction parameters presented by the plasmon frequency, electron scattering time, free electron density and drift mobility have shown that the Ge sandwiching increased the drift mobility values from 10 cm(2)/Vs to 42 cm(2)/Vs. The main plasmon frequency also increased from 1.08 to 1.68 GHz. (C) 2017 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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    New Criterion for Stability of Discrete-Time Systems Joined With a Saturation Operator on the State-Space
    (Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer verlag, 2012) Singh, Vimal
    A new criterion for the global asymptotic stability of discrete-time systems in a state-space realization using saturation arithmetic and with the coefficient matrix A fulfilling a certain condition is presented. The criterion possesses a considerable degree of freedom (free parameters) for testing the stability condition. The criterion is compared with some earlier criteria. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.