An effort is made to systematically investigate the best process conditions that ensures synthesis of different types of one dimensional cadmium selenide nanostructures with high yield and reproducibility. Through a designed experiment and rigorous statistical analysis of experimental data, models linking the probabilities of obtaining specific morphologies to the process variables are develope...

Thin-film CdS is used as a window layer in most of the current thin-film polycrystalline device technologies including absorbers based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium selenide (CIS) and copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). Device performance has been linked to the deposition technique and posttreatment of the CdS layer. Here we used the radio frequency photoconductive decay (RFP...

Inorganic porous materials are being developed for use as molecular sieves, ion exchangers, and catalysts, but most are oxides. We show that various sulfide and selenide clusters, when bound to metal ions, yield gels having porous frameworks. These gels are transformed to aerogels after supercritical drying with carbon dioxide. The aerogels have high internal surface area (up to 327 square mete...

An effort is made to systematically investigate the best process conditions that ensures synthesis of different types of one dimensional cadmium selenide nanostructures with high yield and reproducibility. Through a designed experiment and rigorous statistical analysis of experimental data, models linking the probabilities of obtaining specific morphologies to the process variables are develope...

Thin films of silver selenide have been prepared by chemical bath deposition technique at substrate temperature of 300K. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction and UV-VIS spectrophotometer. Silver selenide thin films are polycrystalline with orthorhombic structure, confirmed by x-ray diffractogram. The deposition parameters were optimized to obtain good quality thin films. The film d...

Vertical and horizontal profiles from the North and South Pacific Oceans demonstrate the existence of three species of dissolved selenium: selenite, selenate, and organic selenide (operationally defined). In surface waters, organic selenide makes up about 80% of the total dissolved selenium, selenite concentrations are uniformly low, and selenate concentrations rise with increased vertical mixi...

Colloidal cadmium selenide (CdSe) and zinc selenide (ZnSe) quantum dots with a hexagonal structure were synthesized by irradiating an aqueous solution containing metal precursors, poly (vinyl pyrrolidone), isopropyl alcohol, and organic solvents with 1.25-MeV gamma rays at a dose of 120 kGy. The radiolytic processes occurring in water result in the nucleation of particles, which leads to the gr...

Among the various two-dimensional semiconductors, indium selenide has recently triggered the interest of scientific community, due to its band gap matching the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with subsequent potential applications in optoelectronics and especially in photodetection. In this feature article, we discuss the main issues in the synthesis, the ambient stability and t...

A homogeneous layer of silver sulfide or selenide was coated onto gold nanorods in aqueous solution by exposing Au/Ag core/shell nanorods to S or Se in an oxidizing environment. The formation of the silver chalcogenide layers was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and selective area electron diffraction (SAED). The longitudinal plasmon resonance of the gold nanorods shifted to ...