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Abstract
Semiconductor systems are suitable materials for nonlinear-optical applications because of their large optical nonlinearities and rapid response. In this work, NiCrxFe2-xO4 nanoparticles for x = 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 are synthesized by the co-precipitation method, and its structural, vibrational, and nonlinear optical properties are characterized. All the prepared samples belong to a cubic spinel structure except the sample x = 2, with a rhombohedral structure, with crystallite sizes ranging from 30 to 40 nm and a bandgap ranging from 3.3 eV to 4eV. The aqueous samples show a saturable absorption on irradiating a 532 nm pulsed laser at low intensities and reverse saturable absorption with saturation effects at higher intensities.
期刊介绍:
Optical Materials has an open access mirror journal Optical Materials: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
The purpose of Optical Materials is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials.
OPTICAL MATERIALS focuses on:
• Optical Properties of Material Systems;
• The Materials Aspects of Optical Phenomena;
• The Materials Aspects of Devices and Applications.
Authors can submit separate research elements describing their data to Data in Brief and methods to Methods X.