Non-Toxic Sulfide Glasses and Thin Films for Optical Applications

Thin Hydrogel Films for Optical Biosensor Applications

Hydrogel materials consisting of water-swollen polymer networks exhibit a large number of specific properties highly attractive for a variety of optical biosensor applications. This properties profile embraces the aqueous swelling medium as the basis of biocompatibility, non-fouling behavior, and being not cell toxic, while providing high optical quality and transparency. The present review foc...

Solution Processed Silver Sulfide Thin Films for Filament Memory Applications

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Optical characterization of polysilicon thin films for solar applications

We report on the results of the investigation of optical properties and structure of PECVD deposited thin films of hydrogenated polysilicon determined by UV–Vis and IR spectroscopy. The influence of the hydrogen dilution of silane plasma at the PEVCD deposition on the film properties was investigated. The refractive index, the optical band gap energy and the microstructure of hydrogen and oxyge...

Stripe glasses in ferromagnetic thin films

Antimony-doped Tin(II) Sulfide Thin Films

Thin-film solar cells made from earth-abundant, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials are needed to replace the current technologies whose widespread use is limited by their use of scarce, costly, and toxic elements. Tin monosulfide (SnS) is a promising candidate for making absorber layers in scalable, inexpensive, and non-toxic solar cells. SnS has always been observed to be a p-type semiconduc...