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Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 9Optical Dynamics in the Ag/Α-ga2< Layer System(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018) Alharbi, S. R.; Qasrawi, A. F.In this work, thin films of Ga2S3 are deposited onto 150 nm thick transparent Ag substrate by the physical vapor deposition technique under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar. The films are studied by the X-ray diffraction and optical spectrophotometry techniques. It is found that the Ag substrate induced the formation of the monoclinic alpha-Ga2S3 polycrystals. The transparent Ag substrate also changed the preferred optical transition in Ga2S3 from direct to indirect It also increased the light absorption by 79 and 23 times at incident light energies of 2.01 and 2.48 eV, respectively. In addition, a red shift in all types of optical transitions is observed. Some the extended energy band tails of Ag appears to form interbands in the band gap of Ga2S3. These interbands strongly attenuated the dielectric and optical conduction parameters. Particularly, an enhancement in the dielectric constant values and response to incident electromagnetic field is observed. The Drude-Lorentz modeling of this interface has shown that the free carrier density, drift mobility, plasmon frequency and reduced electron-plasmon frequency in Ga2S3 increases when the Ag substrate replaced the glass or other metals like Yb, Al and Au. The nonlinear optical dynamics of the Ag/Ga2S3 are promising as they indicate the applicability of this interface for optoelectronic applications.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: 12Citation - Scopus: 14Engineering the Structural, Optical and Dielectric Properties of Znse Thin Films Via Aluminum Nanosandwiching(Elsevier Gmbh, 2019) Qasrawi, A. F.; Alsabe, Ansam M.In this work, two stacked layers of ZnSe thin films are nanosandwiched with aluminum slabs of variable thickness in the range of 10-100 nm. The films which are studied by the X-ray diffraction and ultra-violet visible light spectroscopy techniques exhibit interesting features presented by extension of the cubic lattice parameter, increase in the grain size and reduction in both of the microstrains and defect density. The Al nanosandwiching successfully engineered the energy band gap through narrowing it from 2.84 to 1.85 eV. In addition, the Al nanosandwiching is observed to form interbands that widens upon increasing the Al layer thickness. It also changed the electronic transition nature from direct allowed to direct forbidden type. Moreover, remarkable enhancement in the light absorbability by 796 times is observed near 1.72 eV for two stacked ZnSe layers nanosandwiched with Al slab of thickness of 100 nm. The dielectric constant is also increased three times and the dielectric tenability vary in the range of 3.0-1.2 eV. The nonlinearity in the dielectric spectra and the engineering of the band gap that become more pronounced in the presence of Al slabs make the ZnSe more attractive for nonlinear optical applications.
