Aqueous leaf extract of Plectranthus barbatus was used, for the first time, preparation (2, 6 mol%) silver (Ag)-doped zinc sulfide nanoparticles (ZnS NPs), acting as a stabilizing and capping agent NPs’ production. The obtained metal oxides were characterized by FTIR, UV-visible, XRD, SEM methods. results revealed that 0.02 0.06% Ag-doped ZnS had optical bandgaps 3.20 3.03 eV. XRD evinced cryst...

Niobium doped silver lead borate glasses with the chemical composition (29-x) PbO-yAg2O70B2O3-xNb2O5 (where x= 0.1 to 0.5mol%, y= 1 to 5 mol %) have prepared by conventional melt quenching method.SEM/XRD technique confines glassy nature of the prepared samples. IR and UV optical absorption technique have been used to obtain the information concerning network structure. From the absorption edge ...

We demonstrate efficient coupling between plasmons in a single silver nanowire and nanocrystals doped with rare earth ions, α-NaYF4:Er(3+)/Yb(3+). Plasmonic interaction results in a sevenfold increase of the up-converted emission of nanocrystals located in the vicinity of the nanowires as well as much faster luminescence decays. The enhancement of the emission can be precisely controlled by the...

We have studied the dispersion relations of multilayers of silver and a dye-doped dielectric using four methods: standard effective-medium theory (EMT), nonlocal-effect-corrected EMT, nonlinear equations based on the eigenmode method, and a spatial harmonic analysis method. We compare the validity of these methods and show that metallic losses can be greatly compensated by saturated gain. Two r...

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A ternary hybrid structure of one-dimensional (1D) silver nanowire-doped reduced graphene oxide (RGO) integrated with a CdS nanowire (NW) network has been fabricated via a simple electrostatic self-assembly method followed by a hydrothermal reduction process. The electrical conductivity of RGO can be significantly enhanced by opening up new conduction channels by bridging the high resistance gr...

An investigation on the panchromaticity of a silver-doped poly(vinyl alcohol)/acrylamide photopolymer system is presented in this paper. Frequency-doubled Nd:YAG (532 nm) and Ar⁺ (488 nm) lasers were used for the characterization of the films. Previous studies using an He-Ne laser (632.8 nm) showed that plane-wave transmission grating with a high diffraction efficiency of 75% could be stored in...