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    Citation - WoS: 6
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    Design and characterization of (Al, C)/p-Ge/p-BN/C isotype resonant electronic devices
    (Wiley-v C H verlag Gmbh, 2015) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In this work, a Ge/BN isotype electronic device that works as a selective microwave bandstop filter is designed and characterized. The interface is designed using a 50-m thick p-type BN on a 0.2-m thick p-type germanium thin film. The modeling of current-voltage characteristics of the Al/Ge/BN/C channel of the device revealed that the current is dominated by thermionic emission and by the tunneling of charged particles through energy barriers. The evaluation of the conduction parameters reflected a resonant circuit with a peak-to-valley current ratio of (PVCR) of 63 at a peak (V-p) and valley (V-v) voltages of 1.84 and 2.30V, respectively. The ac signal analysis of the Al/Ge/BN/C channel that was carried out in the frequency range of 1.0-3.0GHz displayed a bandstop filter properties with notch frequency (f(n)) of 2.04GHz and quality factor (Q) of 102. The replacement of the Al electrode by C through the C/Ge/BN/C channel caused the disappearance of the PVCR and shifted f(n) and Q to 2.70GHz and 100, respectively. The features of the Ge/BN device are promising as they indicate the applicability of these sensors in communication technology.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
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    Structural and Electrical Characterizations of the as Grown and Annealed Au/Mοo3< Bandpass Filters
    (Wiley, 2019) Khanfar, Hazem K.; Qasrawi, Atef; Daraghmeh, Masa; Abusaa, Muayad
    In this work, the structural, morphology, and electrical properties of two 500 nm thick molybdenum trioxide layers that are sandwiched with indium slab of thickness of 200 nm (MoO3/In/MoO3 [MIM]) to form a bandpass filter are investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and impedance spectroscopy techniques, respectively. The MIM films which coated onto Au thin film substrates by the thermal evaporation technique under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar was post annealed at 250 degrees C in air atmosphere. While the XRD analysis revealed polycrystalline hexagonal lattice structure of the Au/MLM samples, the SEM and EDS analysis displayed grains of sizes of 350 nm and stoichiometric structure of MoO3. Electrically, indium layer which caused n-type conduction with donor level of 299 meV, forced the material to exhibit negative capacitance (NC) effect at high frequencies (above 1.1 GHz). The impedance spectroscopy which was recorded in the frequency domain of 0.01 to 1.80 GHz, also revealed low pass and high pass filters characteristics in the low and high frequency domains, respectively. The annealing of the Au/MIM samples, decreased the crystallite and grain sizes and increased the microstrain, the defect density and the stacking faults. Small amount of excess oxygen and some indium deficiency are observed upon annealing. In addition, the annealing shifted the donor level closer to the bottom of the conduction band and inverted the NC effect from high to low frequency regions. The study indicates the applicability of the Au/MIM/C structures as microwave cavities and parasitic capacitance cancellers in electronic circuits.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
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    Structural and Optical Properties of the Zns/Gase Heterojunctions
    (Iop Publishing Ltd, 2017) Alharbi, S. R.; Abdallaha, Maisam M. A.; Qasrawi, A. F.
    In the current work, the ZnS/GaSe thin film heterojunction interfaces are experimentally designed and characterized by means of x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersion spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy techniques. The heterojunction is observed to exhibit physical nature of formation with an induced crystallization of GaSe by the ZnS substrate. For this heterojunction, the hot probe technique suggested the formation of a p-ZnS/n-GaSe interface. In addition, the designed energy band diagram of the heterojunction which was actualized with the help of the optical spectrophotometric data analysis revealed a respective conduction and valence band offsets of 0.67 and 0.73 eV. On the other hand, the dielectric dispersion analysis and modeling which was studied in the frequency range of 270-1000 THz, have shown that the interfacing of the ZnS with GaSe strongly affects the properties of ZnS as it reduces the number of free carriers, shifts down the plasmon frequency, increases the charge carrier scattering time and results in higher values of drift mobility at Terahertz frequencies.