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| Abstract: | The present thesis can be divided into three areas:1) the fabrication of a low temperature photo-luminescence and photoconductivity measuring unit 2) photo-luminescence in the chalcopyrite CulnSez and CulnS2 system for defect and composition analysis and 3) photo-luminescence and photo-conductivity of In:JS3. This thesis shows that photo-luminescence is one of most essential semiconductor characterization tool for a scientific group working on photovoltaics. Tools which can be robust, non-destructive, requiring minimal sample preparation for analysis and most informative of the device applications are sought after by industries and this thesis is towards establishing photo-luminescence as "THE" tool for semiconductor characterization. The possible application of photo-luminescence as a tool for compositional and quality analysis of semiconductor thin films has been worked upon by this thesis. Photo-conductivity complement photo-luminescence and together they provide all the information required for the fabrication of an opto-electronic device. |
| Description: | Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/2521 |
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| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/5222 |
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| Abstract: | The research on nanocrystalline materials have been of great interest for more than 20 years due to its fundamental properties as well as development of technology based on it. Non-toxic semiconducting nanocrystals are important materials with wide range of applications in the areas of biotechnology, medicine, bio-optics and for the fabrication light emitting and harvesting devices. Majority of the II-VI semiconductors possess wide band gap along with high iconicity and are important materials for optoelectronic devices operating under the UV excitation sources. Among the II-VI semiconductors, ZnS is a material with good optical transmission in the visible region with large exciton binding energy of about 40 meV. ZnS usually crystallizes in cubic form which is zinc blende or sphalerite and its hexagonal form is in wurtzite phase. The cubic sphalerite phase of ZnS has a band gap of 3.68 eV whereas the hexagonal (wurtzite) phase has a band gap of 3.77 eV. Moreover, ZnS is a good host lattice phosphor for photonic applications and electroluminescent devices because of its wide band gap. The present thesis deals with the synthesis and photoluminescence studies of micro and nanostructured ZnS by hydrothermal and solvo-hydrothermal method. Thesis is also focused on bioimaging application of these materials. |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/5142 |
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| Abstract: | In recent years scientists have made rapid and significant advances in the field of semiconductor physics. One of the most important fields of current interest in materials science is the fundamental aspects and applications of conducting transparent oxide thin films (TCO). The characteristic properties of such coatings are low electrical resistivity and high transparency in the visible region. The first semitransparent and electrically conducting CdO film was reported as early as in 1907 [1]. Though early work on these films was performed out of purely scientific interest, substantial technological advances in such films were made after 1940. The technological interest in the study of transparent semiconducting films was generated mainly due to the potential applications of these materials both in industry and research. Such films demonstrated their utility as transparent electrical heaters for windscreens in the aircraft industry. However, during the last decade, these conducting transparent films have been widely used in a variety of other applications such as gas sensors [2], solar cells [3], heat reflectors [4], light emitting devices [5] and laser damage resistant coatings in high power laser technology [6]. Just a few materials dominate the current TCO industry and the two dominant markets for TCO’s are in architectural applications and flat panel displays. The architectural use of TCO is for energy efficient windows. Fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO), deposited using a pyrolysis process is the TCO usually finds maximum application. SnO2 also finds application ad coatings for windows, which are efficient in preventing radiative heat loss, due to low emissivity (0.16). Pyrolitic tin oxide is used in PV modules, touch screens and plasma displays. However indium tin oxide (ITO) is mostly used in the majority of flat panel display (FPD) applications. In FPDs, the basic function of ITO is as transparent electrodes. The volume of FPD’s produced, and hence the volume of ITO coatings produced, continues to grow rapidly. But the current increase in the cost of indium and the scarcity of this material created the difficulty in obtaining low cost TCOs. Hence search for alternative TCO materials has been a topic of active research for the last few decades. This resulted in the development of binary materials like ZnO, SnO2, CdO and ternary materials like II Zn2SnO4, CdSb2O6:Y, ZnSO3, GaInO3 etc. The use of multicomponent oxide materials makes it possible to have TCO films suitable for specialized applications because by altering their chemical compositions, one can control the electrical, optical, chemical and physical properties. But the advantages of using binary materials are the easiness to control the chemical compositions and depositions conditions. Recently, there were reports claiming the deposition of CdO:In films with a resistivity of the order of 10-5 ohm cm for flat panel displays and solar cells. However they find limited use because of Cd-Toxicity. In this regard, ZnO films developed in 1980s, are very useful as these use Zn, an abundant, inexpensive and nontoxic material. Resistivity of this material is still not very low, but can be reduced through doping with group-III elements like In, Al or Ga or with F [6]. Hence there is a great interest in ZnO as an alternative of ITO. In the present study, we prepared and characterized transparent and conducting ZnO thin films, using a cost effective technique viz Chemical Spray Pyrolysis (CSP). This technique is also suitable for large area film deposition. It involves spraying a solution, (usually aqueous) containing soluble salts of the constituents of the desired compound, onto a heated substrate. |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/662 |
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| Abstract: | The fascinating photoluminescence properties of trivalent europium (Eu3+) coordination compounds have aroused tremendous interest in recent years due to their potential applications ranging from biomedical analysis to material science. The Eu3+ ions have excellent luminescent features such as long-lived excited-state lifetimes (μs–ms range) and narrow, easily recognizable line-like red emission bands with large Stokes shifts. A big challenge in the chemistry of lanthanide ions is to develop luminescent europium complexes that can be sensitized by visible-light. This field has become much more important because of the demand for less-harmful labelling reagents in the life sciences and lowvoltage- driven pure-red emitters in optoelectronic. Thus, the primary objective of the present research work is to design and develop novel visible-light sensitized Eu3+-β-diketonate complexes with impressive photophysical propertiesThe thesis comprises of four chapters which are presented as independent units and therefore the structure formulae, schemes, figures and references are numbered chapterwise. The introductory chapter highlights a background sketch of the use of β-diketonates as antenna ligands for Eu3+ ion, the recent developments in visible light excitable Eu3+-β-complexes and an overview of the various methods of synthesis of Eu3+-based silica hybrid materials, their photophysical properties and possible applications |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/5166 |
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