Highly oriented a-axis BaTiO3 thin films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on ~001! MgO substrates. The full width at half-maximum of the ~200! BaTiO3 rocking curve was as narrow as 0.6°. A large hysteretic quadratic electro-optic effect was observed in a transverse geometry at 6328 Å. A birefringence shift up to 3310 was measured at an applied dc electric field of 1 kV/mm. It was found tha...

Cd1−xZnxS thins films have been fabricated from ZnS/CdS/ZnS multilayer thin film systems, by using the vacuum deposition method; the Rutherford backscattering (RBS) technique have been applied in order to determine the: structure, composition, depth profile, and stoichiometric of these films. The influence of the chemical and heat treatments on the produced films also have been investigated; th...

Vapor-phase fabrication of the metal–organic framework ZIF-8 through conversion precursors prepared by physical, atomic, and molecular layer deposition.