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    COMPOSITION AND SURFACE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF GASE:EU CRYSTALS BEFORE AND AFTER HEAT TREATMENT
    (2024) Sprincean, Veaceslav; Haoyi, Qiu; Tjardts, Tim; Lupan, Oleg; Untila, Dumitru; Aktas, Oral Cenk; Adelung, Rainer; Leontie, Liviu; Cârlescu, Aurelian; Gurlui, Silviu; Caraman, Mihail
    This work studies the technological preparation conditions, morphology, structural char- acteristics and elemental composition, and optical and photoluminescent properties of GaSe single crystals and Eu-doped β–Ga2O3 nanoformations on ε–GaSe:Eu single crystal substrate, obtained by heat treatment at 750–900 ◦C, with a duration from 30 min to 12 h, in water vapor-enriched atmosphere, of GaSe plates doped with 0.02–3.00 at. % Eu. The defects on the (0001) surface of GaSe:Eu plates serve as nucleation centers of β–Ga2O3:Eu crystallites. For 0.02 at. % Eu doping, the fundamental absorption edge of GaSe:Eu crystals at room temperature is formed by n = 1 direct excitons, while at 3.00 at. % doping, Eu completely shields the electron–hole bonds. The band gap of nanostructured β–Ga2O3:Eu layer, determined from diffuse reflectance spectra, depends on the dopant concentration and ranges from 4.64 eV to 4.87 eV, for 3.00 and 0.05 at. % doping, respectively. At 0.02 at. % doping level, the PL spectrum of ε–GaSe:Eu single crystals consists of the n = 1 exciton band, together with the impurity band with a maximum intensity at 800 nm. Fabry–Perrot cavities with a width of 9.3 μm are formed in these single crystals, which determine the interference structure of the impurity PL band. At 1.00–3.00 at. % Eu concentrations, the PL spectra of GaSe:Eu single crystals and β–Ga2O3:Eu nanowire/nanolamellae layers are determined by electronic transitions of Eu2+ and Eu3+ ions.
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    SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF β-Ga2O3 NANOWIRES AND NANOSHEETS ON DOPED GaS:Mn SUBSTRATES
    (2024) Sprincean, Veaceslav; Haoyi, Qiu; Lupan, Oleg; Tjardts, Tim; Petersen, Deik; Veziroglu, Salih; Adelung, Rainer; Caraman, Mihail
    In this work, the synthesis, morphology, optical and luminescence properties of Mn-doped β-Ga2O3 (Ga2O3:Mn) nanowires/nanosheets on Mn-doped GaS (GaS:Mn) substrate are studied. The aim was to obtain structures of semiconductors with layers of nanoformations (nanowires, nanosheets) from a wide energy band semiconductor such as β-Ga2O3 and to determine their characteristic properties. For the base material, Mn-doped GaS lamellae were chosen, which are optically transparent in the spectral region where the optical properties of Mn2+ and Mn3+ ions are manifested. Through thermal annealing, single-crystalline β-GaS plates doped with 1.3 atomic percent (at.%) of manganese (Mn) are exposed to an atmosphere enriched with H2O vapor at a temperature of 800 ◦C for 6 h. As a result, the surface of these plates is covered with a composite layer consisting of crystallites of α-Ga2S3:Mn and β-GaS:Mn planar junctions. This composite exhibits a direct band gap of 2.88 eV and an indirect band gap of 2.55 eV corresponding to the β-GaS:Mn crystallites. Upon further increasing the temperature during thermal annealing to 850 ◦ C and 920 ◦C, the surface of the β-GaS:Mn samples transform into a layer of β-Ga2O3: Mn nanowires/nanosheets with a band gap of 4.5 eV. Its intense green-orange photoluminescence is caused by electronic transitions within the Mn2+ ion.