We report the ultrafast carrier dynamics of an SnSe2–SnSe composite thin film (?150 nm thick) deposited using thermal evaporation in-house synthesized SnSe2 powder. Raman and UV–visible spectroscopy supports optical properties (direct indirect bandgaps 1.86 eV 0.96 eV, respectively). Ultrafast transient is used to study charge excited state in femtosecond nanosecond interval. An energy model ha...

This study investigates the influence of the film thickness on the silicon-excess-mediated sensitization of Erbium ions in Si-rich silica. The Er3+ photoluminescence at 1.5 μm, normalized to the film thickness, was found five times larger for films 1 μm-thick than that from 50-nm-thick films intended for electrically driven devices. The origin of this difference is shared by changes in the loca...

The wetting behavior of oil on water (or brine) has important consequences for the transport properties of oil in watercontaining porous reservoirs, and consequently for oil recovery. The equilibrium wetting behavior of model oils composed of pure alkanes or alkane mixtures on brine is reviewed in this paper. Intermediate between the partial wetting state, in which oil lenses coexist on water w...

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was performed on single-crystal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamonds with low nitrogen concentrations, which were fabricated by microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition at high growth rates. High optical quality undoped 500 µm-thick single-crystal CVD diamonds grown without intentional nitrogen addition proved to be excellent as windows on SAXS...

Electrical methods for thermal characterization, like 3ω method, micro-bridge method and TET method have been widely used in the thermal property measurement, while always been limited by the electrical conductance of samples or other temperature dependent thermal resistors. As an optical method, Raman thermometry has been developed and broadly applied in thermal characterization in recent year...

Vanadium dioxide is a key material for thermochromic smart windows that can respond to environmental temperatures tomodulate near infrared irradiation froma transparent state at low-temperature to an opaque state at high-temperature while maintaining the visible transmittance. This paper reports a novel VO2/FTO/ glass multi-layered structure, which shows promising optical properties for applica...

Thin film photovoltaic cells based on hybrid halide perovskite absorbers have emerged as promising candidates for next generation photovoltaics. Here, we have characterized and identified the defect energy distribution in the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite using admittance spectroscopy, which reveals a deep defect state ∼0.16 eV above the valence band. According to theoretical calculations, the defect s...

To provide a convenient and practical synthesis process for metal ion doping on the surface of nanoparticles in an assembled nanostructure, core-shell-structured La-doped SrTiO₃ nanocubes with a Nb-doped surface layer were synthesized via a rapid synthesis combining a rapid sol-precipitation and hydrothermal process. The La-doped SrTiO₃ nanocubes were formed at room temperature by a rapid disso...

Ultrathin metamaterial layers are modeled by a homogeneous bi-anisotropic film to represent various kinds of broken symmetries in photonic nanostructures, and specifically in optical metamaterials and metasurfaces. Two algorithms were developed to obtain the electromagnetic (EM) wave response from a metasurface (direct solver) or the metasurface parameters from the EM wave response (inverse sol...