Study of the Topographic and Optical Characteristics of Cerium Oxide Thin Films Prepared by the Thermochemical Spraying Method
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In this work, thin films of cerium oxide were prepared using the thermochemical spraying method. The material was deposited on different segments, including glass, crystal silicon and porous silicon. An atomic force microscope (AFM) was used to analyze surface roughness and morphological homogeneity of the thin films, where its AFM images showed clear differences in roughness and surface homogeneity between samples. Nanoscale compositions appeared more clearly in the silicon wafers compared to glass and photoluminescence analysis (PL) technology was used for the study of optical emissions and locations of oriented lengths, where this technique revealed a major emission at 863.2 nm in the case of sedimentation on porous silicon, indicating the effect of the concentration on the optical properties, as well as the use of UV-visible (UV-Vis) spectrometry technology to determine the energy facets and absorption properties, where it showed that the energy gap differs by different substrates and was its highest value when deposition was on glass (3.46 eV). According to UV-Vis measurements, these results open the way for multiple applications in optical reagents and other optical devices.
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