Well-defined crystalline PbSe nanocubes and nanospheres have been synthesized through a simple hydrothermal method by using Pb2+- EDTA and Pb2+- oleylamine complexes at 180°C for different reaction times. Composition and morphology of the samples have been characterized by means of XRD and SEM. Gradual release process of Pb2+ from Pb2+-EDTA and Pb2+-oleylamine complexes can adjust the growth ra...

   We have investigated the electronic and optical properties of AlN hexagonal nanosheets under different kinds of strains, using the band structure results obtained through the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method within the density functional theory. The results show that 10% uniaxial strain along the zig-zag direction induces an indirect to direct band-gap transition. Th...

First principle calculations were performed using Density functional theory within the local spin density approximation (LSDA) to understand the electronic properties of Au(100)+TBT system and compare the results with Au(100) and bulk Au properties. Band structure, the total DOS and charge density for these materials are calculated. We found that the HOMO for Au(100)+TBT becomes broader than Au...

We have measured the bulk energy-momentum resolved valence band structure of calcium oxide by the means of electron momentum spectroscopy (EMS). We have extracted the band dispersions, bandwidths and inter-valance gap, electron momentum density (EMD) and density of occupied states (DOS) from the measured data. The experimental results are compared with theoretical band structure calculations pe...

Highly crystalline and pure lithium metasilicate (Li2SiO3) and lithium disilicate (Li2Si2O5) nanomaterials were synthesized by hydrothermal method and characterized by PXRD technique. The changes in the morphology and particle size of the synthesized nanomaterials with reaction time were investigated using SEM technique. The UV-Vis and photoluminescence spectra of the compounds were studied. Th...

Lead tungstate (PbWO4) crystallizes in the scheelite (CaWO4) structure, is transparent (Eg ≈ 4.2 eV), and has a broad intrinsic luminescence band at 420 nm. The high atomic numbers, high density, short electron and γ-ray stopping range, radiation hardness, and short lifetime of its intrinsic luminescence at room temperature (~10ns), have resulted in the selection of PbWO4 as the scintillator fo...