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...

Visible light accounts for about 43% of the solar spectrum, and developing highly efficient visible-light-driven photocatalyst is of special significance. In this work, highly efficient three-dimensional (3D) Cd1-xZnxS photocatalysts for hydrogen generation under the irradiation of visible light were synthesized via one-step solvothermal pathway. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractomet...

Two types of photocatalysts, 1%Pt/Cd1?xZnxS/g-C3N4 (x = 0.2–0.3) and Cd1?xZnxS/1%Pt/g-C3N4 0.2–0.3), were synthesized by varying the deposition order platinum, a solid solution cadmium zinc sulfides onto surface g-C3N4. The characterization photocatalysts showed that, for 1%Pt/Cd1?xZnxS/g-C3N4, small platinum particles deposited sulfides; in case Cd1?xZnxS/1%Pt/g-C3N4, enlarged clusters located...

Structural, optical and electronic properties and elastic constants of Be1–xZnxS alloys have been studied by employing the commercial code Castep based on density functional theory. The generalized gradient approximation and local density approximation were utilized as exchange correlation. Using elastic constants for compounds, bulk modulus, band gap, Fermi energy and Kramers–Kronig relations,...

Metal nanoparticles-decorated semiconductor nanomaterials generally hold a series of advantages especially enhanced electron–hole pair lifetime and thus exhibit superior solar energy conversions. In this study, we report facile solution processing Au-decorated Cd1−xZnxS, where x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, nanocomposites their photocatalytic activity against methylene blue (MB) dye degradations. T...