In 1996, Matsuzawa et al. reported on the enormously long-lasting afterglow of SrAl2O4: Eu 2+ co-doped with Dy ions, which was more than 10-times brighter than the previously widely used ZnS: Cu. Since then, research for stable and efficient phosphors has constantly gained attractiveness. However, even today almost 15 years after the invention of SrAl2O4: Eu 2+ the number of luminescent materia...

The Kerr-lens mode locking stability and the ultrashort pulse characteristics are analyzed numerically for the Cr-doped ZnTe, ZnSe, ZnS active media. The advantages of these materials for the femtosecond lasing within 2-3 µm spectral range are demonstrated.

the nanoparticles of gold doped with various percentage of copper (cu 10%, 25%, 75%) were synthesized by wet-chemical method at room temperature. copper (ii) sulfate and gold (iii) chloride trihydride was taken as the metal precursor and ascorbic acid as a reducing agent and anhydride maleic as surfactant. the reaction is performed with high-speed stirring at room temperature under nitrogen atm...

Doped and undoped ZnS semiconductor nanocrystals having different recombination pathways are explored to study the charge transfer reaction between the nanocrystals and the 4-nitrophenol/sodium borohydride redox couple.

Visible light photocatalytic H(2) production through water splitting is of great importance for its potential application in converting solar energy into chemical energy. In this study, a novel visible-light-driven photocatalyst was designed based on photoinduced interfacial charge transfer (IFCT) through surface modification of ZnS porous nanosheets by CuS. CuS/ZnS porous nanosheet photocataly...

Zinc Sulphide (ZnS) nanoparticles doped with different concentrations of Mn (0%, 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10%) have been synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a capping agent to control the particle growth. The structural characterizations of as synthesized nanoparticles are determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) which showed cubic zinc blende structures with av...

The Kerr-lens mode locking ability and the ultrashort pulse characteristics are analyzed numerically for the Cr-doped ZnTe, ZnSe, ZnS active media. The advantages of these materials for the femtosecond lasing within 2-3 µm spectral range are demonstrated.

In this paper, we demonstrate a dynamic holographic display in a quantum dot (ZnS/InP) doped liquid crystal device, where one of the interior cell surfaces is covered by a ZnSe layer. Such a hybrid device shows substantially improved photorefractive sensitivity of 2.2 cm3/J, which is almost 300 times larger than that in ZnS/InP doped liquid crystal device without the ZnSe layer. The ...