Nitrogen doped amorphous carbon (a-C:N) thin films were deposited on silicon and quartz substrates by microwave surface-wave plasma chemical vapor deposition (SWMP-CVD) technique at low temperatures (100°C). We used argon (Ar), camphor dissolved in alcohol, and nitrogen (N) as carrier, source,...

Nanocrystalline thin films of nitrogen (N)-incorporated ZnO, deposited on glass substrate by sol–gel (SG) and electrodeposition (ED) routes, have been investigated for their possible relevance to photoelectrochemical (PEC) splitting of water. XRD pattern established dominant evolution of...

The tetrahedral carbon (ta-C) and boron doped amorphous carbon (a-C:B) thin films have been grown by pulsed laser deposition. The respective effects of diamond percentages by weight in the target (Dwt%) and boron percentages by weight in the camphoric carbon target (Bwt%), on the tetrahedral...

The n-type conductivity nitrogen-doped amorphous carbon (n-C) films have been grown by surface wave microwave chemical vapor deposition (SWP-CVD) on plastic and quartz substrates. The bonding, electrical and photovoltaic properties have been studied. The Tauc plot of UV-Visible measurement have...

The structural parameters of six Nigerian coals were determined by X-ray diffraction, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy. This study reveals that the coals contain crystalline carbon of turbostratic structure with some amount of highly disordered amorphous carbon. The average lateral sizes (La),...

Magnetic birefringence experiments under static field are performed on ionic ferrofluid samples based on γ-Fe<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subscript> <Emphasis Type="Bold">-Fe<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subscript>. A colloidal size-sorting of the particles allows to obtain narrow size distributions. The optical birefringence of the solutions is found positive and can be described by a...</subscript></subscript></emphasis></subscript></subscript>

N-doped Cu2O films were deposited on quartz substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering a Cu2O target. The optical constants and thicknesses of the films with different nitrogen partial pressure (NPP) were retrieved from transmittance data by an optical model which combines the Forouhi–Bloomer...

In this paper, we investigated indium-tin-oxide (ITO) thin films on glass substrates deposited by RF magnetron sputtering using ceramic target to find the optimal condition for fabricating optoelectronic devices. The structural, electrical and optical properties of the ITO films prepared at...