Zinc sulfide (ZnS) films were deposited through a simple and low cost spray pyrolytic technique using mixed aqueous solutions of zinc nitrate and thiourea. The structural and optical properties of these films were investigated as a function of initial (Zn:S) molar ratio in the precursor solution, which varied between (1:1) and (1:3). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed that wurtzite...

We design an all-dielectric Lüneburg lens as an adiabatic space-variant lattice explicitly accounting for finite film thickness. We describe an all-analytical approach to compensate for the finite height of subwavelength dielectric structures in the pass-band regime. This method calculates the effective refractive index of the infinite-height lattice from effective medium theory, then embeds a ...

Recently it has been found that the heterostructures of n-ZnO/p-Si are promising photovoltaic alternatives to silicon homojunctions. It is well known energy band diagram a heterostructure crucial for understanding its operation. This paper analyzes ZnO/p-Si by using free AMPS-1D computer program simulations. The obtained numerical results compared with theoretical calculations based on depletio...

We illustrate unsupervised clustering algorithms using a twodimensional color-magnitude diagram constructed from the COMBO-17 (`Classifying Objects by Medium-Band Observations in 17 Filters') photometric survey of normal galaxies (Wolf et al. 2003). The R script below starts with the which function to filter the dataset, keeping only low-redshift galaxies with z < 0.3 and remove a few points wi...