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Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 4Thickness and Annealing Effects on the Structural and Optical Conductivity Parameters of Zinc Phthalocyanine Thin Films(inst Materials Physics, 2020) Alharbi, S. R.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Khusayfan, N. M.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the effects of the thin film thicknesses on the structural, optical absorption, energy band gap, dielectric spectra and optical conductivity parameters of the Zinc phthalocyanine thin films are considered. Thin films of ZnPc of thicknesses of 50-600 nm which are coated onto glass substrates are observed to exhibit amorphous nature of growth. The polycrystalline monoclinic ZnPc phase of the films is obtained via annealing the films at 200 degrees C in a vacuum atmosphere. Increasing the ZnPc films thickness shrunk the energy band gap in the B- and Q- bands and decreased both of the optical conductivities and free holes density in the Q-band. The increase in the film thickness is also observed to decrease the plasmon frequency and the drift mobility of holes in the films. The highest dielectric constant is obtained for films of thicknesses of 100 nm. The annealing process enhanced the optical absorption, redshifts the energy band gap value and the critical energy of the absolute maxima of dielectric constant. In addition, while the heat treatment enhanced both of the scattering times at femtosecond level and the drift mobility, it reduced the free holes density, and the plasmon frequency.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Optical Dynamics at the Au/Znpc Interfaces(Univ Fed Sao Carlos, dept Engenharia Materials, 2020) Qasrawi, A. F.; Zyoud, Hadeel M.In this work, the optical dynamics and the structural properties of the zinc phthalocyanine which are coated onto 150 nm thick Au substrates are studied by the X-ray diffraction and optical spectrophotometry techniques. The Au/ZnPc interfaces appears to be strongly affected by the large lattice mismatches at the interface. It is observed that the coating ZnPc onto Au substrates increases the light absorbability by 4.7 and 128.2 times in the visible and infrared regions of light, respectively. Au substrates activated the free carrier absorption mechanism in the ZnPc thin films in the infrared range of light. In addition, the transparent Au substrates forced narrowing the energy band gap in both of the Q and B bands. It also increased the dielectric constant value by similar to 3.5 times in the IR range. The enhancements in the optical properties of ZnPc that resulted from the thin Au substrates make the ZnPc more suitable for optoelectronic, nonlinear optical applications and for electromagnetic energy storage in the infrared range of light.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Structural and Electrical Performance of Moo3 Films Designed as Microwave Resonators(inst Materials Physics, 2020) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Alharbi, S. R.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the effect of the insertion of lithium slabs of thicknesses of 50 nm between stacked layers of MoO3 is considered. Stacked layers of MoO3 comprising lithium slabs are prepared by the thermal evaporation technique onto Au substrates under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar. The effects of Li slabs are explored by the X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, current-voltage characteristics and impedance spectroscopy techniques in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.80 GHz. While the presence of Li slabs did not alter the amorphous nature of structure, it forced the growth of rod-like grains of diameters of 100-160 nm and lengths of 1.5 mu m. Electrically, the presence of Li in the samples enhanced the rectifying properties of the devices and force reverse to forward current ratios larger than 60 times. Li slabs also controlled the negative capacitance effect and resonance -antiresonance regions in the Au/MoO3/MoO3/C stacked layers. While the Au/MoO3/MoO3/C devices displayed high conductance and low impedance values in the studied frequency domain, the Au/MoO3/Li/MOO3/C devices exhibited low conductance and high impedance mode in the frequency domain of 0.01-0.59 GHz. It is also found that the presence of Li slabs improved the performance of the devices through driving it to exhibit lower reflection coefficient and high return loss values near 0.80 GHz. The features of the devices nominate them for use as RF-Microwave traps or resonators.Article Citation - WoS: 10Citation - Scopus: 9Tunable Au/Ga2< Varactor Diodes Designed for High Frequency Applications(Natl inst R&d Materials Physics, 2017) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the design and characterization of Au/Ga2S3/Yb Schottky barrier is investigated by means of transmittance electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS), capacitance spectroscopy, capacitance (C)-voltage (V) characteristics and impedance spectroscopy techniques. The design of the energy band diagram of the amorphous Au/Ga2S3 interface revealed a theoretical energy barrier height (q phi(b)) and built in voltage (qV(bi)) of 2.04 and 1.88 eV, respectively. Experimentally, the qV(bi) was observed to be sensitive to the applied signal frequency. In addition, the capacitance spectra which were studied in the range of 10-1800 MHz, revealed resonance and antiresonance biasing dependent signal oscillations associated with negative capacitance values. On the other hand, impedance spectroscopy analysis revealed band pass/reject filtering properties in all the studied frequency range. The device exhibited a return loss, voltage standing wave ratio and power efficiency of 16.7 dB, 1.3 and 98.3% at 1400 MHz, respectively.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Formation and Negative Capacitance Effect in Au/Bi2< Heterojunctions Designed as Microwave Resonators(Natl inst R&d Materials Physics, 2018) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this article, the physical design, energy band diagram, temperature dependent electrical resistivity and the impedance spectroscopy measurements of the Au/Bi2O3/ZnS/Ag isotype heterojunction devices are reported. The devices are prepared by the thermal evaporation technique under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar. Structural, compositional and morphological studies has shown the presence of an expansion in the lattice of Bi2O3 associated with increased strain and dislocation density and decreased grain size as a result of ZnS interfacing. The design of the band diagram indicated that the formed heterojunction exhibit large valence and conduction band offsets that forces charge accumulation at the interface. The Au/Bi2O3/ZnS/Ag device displays negative capacitance (NC) effect in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.50 GHz. The NC effect is interrupted by a resonance-antiresonance phenomenon in the frequency domain of 0.90-1.07 GHz. In addition to the NC effects, the device under study exhibited reflection coefficient and return loss spectra that nominate it for use as microwave cavities or as low pass band filters.
