A novel processing scheme has been developed that allows for the single step processing of nanostructured complex oxides. This approach involves the high energy ball-milling (HEBM) of binary oxide precursors to form pure phase complex oxides at low-temperatures. Using this technique we have prepared Lao.67Cao.33MnO3. 8 and studied the evolution of short range and long-range order, using EXAFS and XRD respectively, as a function of milling time during the solid state transformation. Transport properties of the milled perovskites are also discussed.
Polycrystalline Cu-doped ZnIn 2 S 4 samples were grown on fluorine doped-tin-oxide-coated glass substrates using chemical bath deposition. The effect of [Cu]/[Cu+Zn] molar ratio in solution bath on the structural, optical and photoelectrochemical properties of the samples was investigated. From the results of X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of samples, a small shift in the peaks to a higher-angle was observed with the increase in Cu content in the film. The thicknesses and direct band gaps of the samples are in the ranges of 520-1260 nm and 2.51-2.09 eV, as obtained from surface profile measurement and transmittance/reflectance spectra, respectively. The highest photoelectrochemical response of samples was 1.15 mA/cm 2 at an external potential of + 1.0 V vs. an Ag/AgCl electrode in 0.5 M K 2 SO 4 solution under illumination using a 300W Xe lamp system with the light intensity set at 100 mW/cm 2 .
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