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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: 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.
