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We demonstrate experimentally the tuning of complete photonic band gaps in patterned silicon nitride waveguides. Transmission measurements were performed using an ultrabroadband high-brightness white light laser continuum, extracting extinction ratios as low as 10 in the gap regions. Angle-resolved measurements show the perfect alignment of the gap around the G-J direction. © 2000 American Inst...

The impact of post-deposition hydrogen plasma treatment (HPT) on passivation in amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si:H/c-Si) interfaces is investigated. Combining low temperature a-Si:H deposition and HPT, a high effective charge carrier lifetime > 8ms is achieved on c-Si<100>, which serves as model for surfaces promoting epitaxy of a-Si:H. It is shown that the passivation improvement stems from...

in this paper, undopedzno and co-znonano structureswith different molar ratio of cobalt have been synthesized by the sonochemical method. structure have been characterized by fourier transform (ftir) and uv–vis spectroscopy,scanning electron microscopy (sem), energy dispersive analytical x-ray (edax), and x-ray diffraction (xrd) methods. moreover, the direct band gap has been calculated by tauc...

in the present study, co-zno and co-ni-zno nanoparticles were synthesized by sonochemical methods and the structural and optical properties were investigated through fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir), uv-vis spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (fe-sem), x-ray diffraction (xrd), and photoluminescence spectroscopy (pl) methods. morphology of nanoparticles obtain...