ZnS nanocrystalline thin films were grown into the polyvinyl alcohol matrix and were synthesized by chemical route. Films were prepared on glass substrate by varying the deposition parameters and pH of the solution. Nanocrystalline thin film prepared under optimum growth conditions shows band gap value 3.88 eV as observed from optical absorption data. The band gap is found to be higher (3.88 eV...

In this paper the influence of material composition on the structural, surface and optical properties of HfO2-TiO2 mixed oxide coatings was investigated and discussed. Five sets of thin films were deposited using reactive magnetron sputtering: HfO2, TiO2 and three sets of mixed HfO2-TiO2 coatings with various titanium content. The change in the material composition had a significant influence o...

Systematic studies of nanocrystalline nickel tungstate, NiWO4, thin films were performed by several experimental techniques such as Ni Kand W L1,3-edges X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and cyclic voltammetry measurements. We found that the NiWO4 thin films exhibit electrochromic properties similar to that of amorphous tungsten trioxi...

In this paper we present results on silicon thin films deposited by Hot-Wire CVD at low substrate temperature (200oC). Films ranging from amorphous to nanocrystalline were obtained by varying the filament temperature from 1500 to 1800oC. A crystalline fraction of 50% was obtained for the sample deposited at 1700oC. The results obtained seemed to indicate that atomic hydrogen plays a leading rol...

Nanocrystalline n type ZnO thin films were deposited on SiO2-coated (0.4 μm) p-Si substrates (10-20Ω-cm, 400 μm) by a low cost chemical deposition technique to fabricate ZnO-based resistive sensors for methane detection. The nanocrystalline ZnO needle like structures were grown on RCA cleaned p-Si substrates by successive immersion (100-200 times) into a Sodium

We report a rapid, self-catalyzed, solid precursor-based thermal plasma chemical vapor deposition process for depositing a conformal, nonporous, and optically transparent nanocrystalline ZnO thin film at 130 Torr (0.17 atm). Pure solid zinc is inductively heated and melted, followed by ionization by thermal induction argon/oxygen plasma to produce conformal, nonporous nanocrystalline ZnO films ...

An electron-emission theoretical model integrating the change in the grain size of nanocrystalline cubic boron nitride (c-BN) thin films was established. To understand better the essence of field emission, an accurate numerical scheme, the transfer matrix method, that can be used to compute the tunneling coefficients of the actual surface barrier, was also adopted. The present results show that...

In present study spray pyrolysis technique was employed to prepare pure and doped CdSnO3 thin films. The spray pyrolyzed thin films were observed to be nanostructured in nature with particle size less than 10 nm and characterized to investigate its structural, microstructural and chemical properties by means of XRD, SEM/EDS, TEM and surface profilometry. Pure and Zn doped CdSnO3 nanostructured ...

We report the formation of smooth and processable silicon thin-films from single-crystal silicon-nanoparticle suspensions. Single-crystal Si-nanoparticles (1–4 nm) are produced and suspended in various solvents. Films deposited from the suspension are mechanically stable and can be patterned and processed upon deposition. Physical compression of the films is presented as a mechanism to reduce p...

By exploiting colloidal properties, such as transparency, rheology and versatile chemistry, we propose to synthesize new photonic nanomaterials based on colloidal solutions and thin films. This contribution highlights our efforts to elaborate and to characterize nanostructures based on the ZnO–TiO2 system. Using a recently developed sol–gel route to synthesize new Ti@ZnO organosols, we were abl...