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    Effect of Ytterbium, Gold and Aluminum Transparent Metallic Substrates on the Performance of the Ga2s3< Thin Film Devices
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2017) Alharbi, S. R.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In the current work, the structural, optical, dielectric and electrical properties of the Ga2S3 thin films which are deposited onto transparent thin Al, Yb and Au metal substrates are characterized by means of transmittance electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet visible light spectroscopy and impedance spectroscopy techniques. The effects of the metallic substrates on the crystalline nature, energy band gap and dielectric spectra are also investigated. The modeling of the dielectric spectra allowed determining the effect of the Al, Yb and Au thin layers on the electron scattering time, the plasmon frequency, free electron density and drift mobility. In addition, a Yb/Ga2S3/Au Schottky barrier and All Ga2S3/Au back to back Schottky barrier devices (metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) device) are fabricated and characterized by means of capacitance-voltage characteristics and capacitance and conductance spectra in the frequency range of 10-1800 MHz. While the Schottky barrier device displayed three distinct positions of resonance-antiresonance phenomena, the MSM device displayed one peak with narrow bandwidth of 10 MHz. The MSM devices exhibited an inversion, depletion and accumulation modes within a voltage range of 0.25 V width at 250 MHz. The study indicates the applicability of these device as smart capacitive switches, as Plasmon devices and as wavetraps. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Design of the Zns/Ge pn Interfaces as Plasmonic, Photovoltaic and Microwave Band Stop Filters
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2017) Alharbi, S. R.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In the current work, we report and discuss the features of the design of a ZnS (300 nm)/Ge (300 nm)/GaSe (300 nm) thin film device. The device is characterized by the X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), optical spectroscopy, microwave power spectroscopy and light power dependent photoconductivity. While the X-ray diffraction technique revealed a polycrystalline ZnS coated with two amorphous layers of Ge and GaSe, the hot probe tests revealed the formation of pn interface. The optical spectra which were employed to reveal the conduction and valence band offsets at the ZnS/Ge and Ge/GaSe interface indicated information about the dielectric dispersion at the interface. The dielectric spectra of the ZnS/Ge/GaSe heterojunction which was modeled assuming the domination of surface plasmon interactions through the films revealed a pronounced increase in the drift mobility of free carriers in the three layers compared to the single and double layers. In the scope of the fitting parameters, a wave trap that exhibit filtering properties at notch frequency of 2.30 GHz was designed and tested. The ac signals power spectrum absorption reached similar to 99%. In addition, the photocurrent analysis on the ZnS/Ge/GaSe interface has shown it is suitability for photovoltaic and photosensing applications. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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    Band Offsets and Optical Conduction in the Cdse/Gase Interface
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2016) Kayed, T. S.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Elsayed, Khaled A.
    In this work, the design and characterization of CdSe/GaSe heterojunction is considered. The CdSe/GaSe thin film interface was prepared by the physical vapor deposition technique. Systematic structural and optical analysis were performed to explore the crystalline nature, the optical band gaps, the conduction and valence band offsets, the dielectric spectra, and the frequency dependent optical conductivity at terahertz frequencies. The X-ray diffraction analysis revealed a polycrystalline interface that is mostly dominated by the hexagonal CdSe oriented in the (002) direction. It was also found that the CdSe/GaSe interface exhibits conduction and valence band offsets of 1.35 and 1.23/1.14 eV, respectively. The dielectric spectra displayed two dielectric resonance peaks at 530 and 445 THz. Moreover, the computational fittings of the optical conductivity of the interface revealed a free carrier scattering time of 0.41 (fs) for a free carrier density of 7.0 x 10(18) (cm(-3)). The field effect mobility for the CdSe/GaSe interface was found to be 5.22 (cm(2)/Vs). The remarkable features of this device having large band offsets and qualitative optical conduction dominated by a scattering time in the order of femtoseconds in addition to the dielectric property nominate the device to be used in optoelectronic technology. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Dielectric dispersion in InSe/CdS bilayers
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Qasrawi, A. F.; Shehada, Sufyan R.
    In the current study, the effect of the amorphous InSe thin film substrate on the structural, optical and dielectric properties of CdS are investigated. The structural analysis of the bilayers indicated a strained growth of CdS onto InSe leading to decrease in grain size and increase in the dislocation density. The optical measurements have shown that the InSe/CdS exhibits two direct allowed transitions energy band gap values of 2.04 and 1.38 eV, in the high and low absorption regions, respectively. On the other hand, the detailed analysis of the dielectric spectra for the InSe, CdS and InSe/CdS layers has shown that the presence of the InSe substrate significantly improves the optical conduction parameters. Particularly, the Drude-Lorentz modeling for these dielectric systems revealed a drift mobility value of 329 cm(2)/V for the InSe/CdS bilayer. The deposition of the CdS onto InSe is also observed to shift the plasmon frequency of CdS from 2.49 to 0.77 GHz. The general features of the InSe/ CdS as plasmon cavities are promising as it shows its usability for production of optoelectronic devices that exhibit high performance at very high frequencies.