ABSTRACT
This study reports the structural and optical properties of CdS/ZnTiO3 nanocomposites prepared using a chemical bath and different titanate concentrations. Commercial ZnTiO3 nanoparticles were introduced into a chemical bath that had been used to produce CdS semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs). Here, the growing CdS crystallites precipitated onto the suspended zinc titanate NPs. X-ray diffraction patterns revealed that samples of CdS/ZnTiO3 nanopowders were made of cubic ZnTiO3 and hexagonal CdS wurtzite. The morphology of the particles was studied using transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy images. These images demonstrated the different characteristics of the CdS/ZnTiO3 nanocomposites and their dependence on titanate concentration when placed into the CdS-growing solution. Photoluminescence spectra showed three main emission bands for the electron transitions in the CdS/ZnTiO3 composite. This composite produced three photoluminescence bands, the intensities of which depended on composite shape, which in turn depended on the relative concentrations of CdS and ZnTiO3 .
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Cadmium Compounds/chemistry , Luminescent Measurements , Nanostructures/chemistry , Oxides/chemistry , Sulfides/chemistry , Titanium/chemistry , Zinc/chemistry , Particle Size , Photochemical Processes , Porosity , Semiconductors , Surface PropertiesABSTRACT
This paper reports an improvement to the chopper z-scan technique for elliptic Gaussian beams. This improvement results in a higher sensitivity by measuring the ratio of eclipsing time to rotating period (duty cycle) of a chopper that eclipses the beam along the main axis. It is shown that the z-scan curve of the major axis is compressed along the z-axis. This compression factor is equal to the ratio between the minor and major axes. It was found that the normalized peak-valley difference with respect to the linear value does not depend on the axis along which eclipsing occurs.
