The local environments around mercury atoms in the narrow-bandgap semiconductor alloys have been deduced from extended x-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) analysis. A nonlinear least-squares fitting was applied in order to determine the coordination number, the bond distances and the Debye - Waller factors for the nearest and the next-nearest neighbours around the Hg atom. While ordering has been found for the first coordination shell which consists

CdTe and Hg1-xCdxTe narrow-gap semiconductor materials were deposited as thin films on optical glass, by the laser-assisted physical vapor deposition (LAPVD) process. A pulsed CO2-TEA laser was used to vaporize the studied materials in a vacuum chamber. The Fourier analysis of the (111) CdTe X-ray diffraction profile was used to determine the average effective crystallite size, the root mean square of the microstrain, the stacking fault probability

A sensitization process by heat treatment in oxygen atmosphere was used in order to increase the photoconductivity of vacuum evaporated PbS thin films. The Fourier analysis of the (200) PbS X-ray diffraction profile has shown a decrease of the crystallites mean size and an increase of the sensitized PbS lattice distortion because of chemisorption of oxygen at the crystallites surfaces. The crystallites mean size distribution function indicates that

X-ray absorption fine structure measurements were performed at the Pb L m edge on the oxygen implanted PbS semiconductor thin films in order to probe structural changes in such films. It has been found that the Pb-S bond length was changed from 2.98 A, to 2.82 ,~. The nearest neighbor shell of Pb consists of 5.4 S atoms and 0.60 atoms. The increased values of the Debye-Waller factors indicate the presence of a structural disorder induced by the doping

Thiabendazole (TBZ) is a chemical fungicide and parasiticide largely used in food industry against mold and blight in vegetables and fruits during transportation and long term deposit. We investigated the possibility to detect and monitor the TBZ from the chemically treated bananas and citrus fruits available on Romanian market, using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) with a compact, portable, mini-Raman spectrometer. To assess the potential