Photoluminescence emission in arsenic sulfide nanocomposite

Abstract

Synthesis and characterization of the optical properties of materials especially at a nanoscale, is considered as important tasks for the engineering of photonic devices and systems. In this paper we study the photoluminescence of new nanocomposite material consisting of arsenic sulfide doped in porous glasses and the effect of photoinduced structural transformations on it. The nanocomposite was obtained via chemical deposition method in which arsenic sulfide powder was dissolved in an amine solution and then clean pieces of porous glass were impregnated for 2 days in the solution. Strong photoluminescence signal was observed in the samples when excited with lasers with excitation wavelengths of 405 and 532 nm. Also, the effect of laser irradiation on the photoluminescence of the samples was studied using confocal microscope with two different operating lasers 405 and 514 nm. It was observed that laser irradiation influences photoluminescence differently depending on the irradiation wavelength.

Keywords

• Arsenic sulfide
• Photoinduced structural transformations
• Nanocomposite
• Porous glasses
• Photoluminescence