The use of zinc thin films deposited onto glass supports for surface plasmon coupled fluorescence (SPCF) over a broad 200 nm wavelength range is demonstrated. Fresnel calculations performed in the ultraviolet and visible spectral range are predicted to generate surface plasmon modes in 30 nm zinc thin films. In this spectral range, the extent of coupling of light to zinc thin films was shown to...

In this work, we presented some complementary studies for In(O,OH)S thin films deposited on AgInS2 thin films to fabricate a new system absorbent-layer/ buffer-layer to be used in tandem and/or in one-junction solar cells. As showed in previous works carried out for us, AgInS2 layers were grown by co-evaporation from metal precursors in a two-step process; and In(O,OH)S thin films were deposite...

In this study, Ga₂O₃-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films were deposited on glass and flexible polyimide (PI) substrates at room temperature (300 K), 373 K, and 473 K by the radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering method. After finding the deposition rate, all the GZO thin films with a nano-scale thickness of about 150 ± 10 nm were controlled by the deposition time. X-ray diffraction patterns indicated...

The nitrogen doped amorphous carbon (a-C:N) thin films were synthesized for the first time by mixing of nitrogen gas, argon and ethanol precursor via a bias assisted pyrolysis-CVD in the range of 250 o C to 550 o C with fixed negative bias of -50V in 1h deposition. The a-C:N thin films were characterized by current-voltage measurement, UV/VIS spectrophotometer, surface profiler, and atomic forc...

Multiferroic composite materials, consisting of coupled ferromagnetic and piezoelectric phases, are of great importance in the drive towards creating faster, smaller and more energy efficient devices for information and communications technologies. Such devices require thin ferromagnetic films with large magnetostriction and narrow microwave resonance linewidths. Both properties are often degra...

We reported temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) studies on Cu-Zn-In-S quantum dot (QD) thin films. In this paper, cadmium-free and luminescent Cu-Zn-In-S quantum dot thin films were in situ formed by thermal decomposition of molecular-based precursors in the open air, without need of the complicated quantum dot synthesis. Molecular-based precursor solutions were prepared by dissolving ...

The aluminum oxide (Al2O3) thin films with various thicknesses under 50 nm were deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on silicon substrate. The surface topography investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) revealed that the samples were smooth and crack-free. The ellipsometric spectra of Al2O3 thin films were measured and analyzed before and after annealing in nitrogen condition in the ...

indium tin oxide (ito) thin films were deposited on glass substrates by rf sputtering using an ito ceramic target (in2o3-sno2, 90-10 wt. %). after deposition, samples were annealed at different temperatures in vacuum furnace. the post vacuum annealing effects on the structural, optical and electrical properties of ito films were investigated. polycrystalline ito films have been analyzed in wide...

To evaluate the fracture strength of TiN thin films deposited on the hard metal substrate WC-Co, and to investigate the influence of the deposition conditions (bias voltage VB) on the fracture strength of TiN thin films, the sphere indentation test was carried out to determine the ring crack initiation strength σf,m in TiN thin films deposited on two kinds of WC-Co substrates differing in hardn...

In this work, the effects of strontium addition on the structure and optical properties of nanostructured bismuth silicate (Bi4Si3O12) thin films prepared via sol-gel were studied. At first, different sols containing the optimum ratio of precursors were synthesized, and then, the prepared sols were coated on the substrate via dip coating. The dip coated samples were dried at 100oC and, in order...