Search results for "Tellurium"

Mid-infrared 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinuum generation in suspended-core microstructured Sulfide and Tellurite optical fibers

2012

International audience; In this work, we report the experimental observation of supercontinua generation in two kinds of suspended-core microstructured soft-glass optical fibers. Low loss, highly nonlinear, tellurite and As2S3 chalcogenide fibers have been fabricated and pumped close to their zero-dispersion wavelength in the femtosecond regime by means of an optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Ti:Sapphire laser. When coupled into the fibers, the femtosecond pulses result in 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinua reaching the Mid-Infrared region and extending from 750 nm to 2.8 mu m in tellurite fibers and 1 mu m to 3.2 mu m in chalcogenide fibers, respectively.

Nanogoniometry with scanning force microscopy: a model study of CdTe thin films.

2007

In this paper scanning force microscopy is combined with simple but powerful data processing to determine quantitatively, on a sub-micrometer scale, the orientation of surface facets present on crystalline materials. A high-quality scanning force topography image is used to determine an angular histogram of the surface normal at each image point. In addition to the known method for the assignment of Miller indices to the facets appearing on the surface, a quantitative analysis is presented that allows the characterization of the relative population and morphological quality of each of these facets. Two different CdTe thin films are used as model systems to probe the capabilities of this met…

Manufacturing Te/PEDOT Films for Thermoelectric Applications

2017

In this work, flexible Te films have been synthesized by electrochemical deposition using PEDOT [poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)] nanofilms as working electrodes. The Te electrodeposition time was varied to find the best thermoelectric properties of the Te/PEDOT double layers. To show the high quality of the Te films grown on PEDOT, the samples were analyzed by Raman spectroscopy, showing the three Raman active modes of Te: E1, A1, and E2. The X-ray diffraction spectra also confirmed the presence of crystalline Te on top of the PEDOT films. The morphology of the Te/PEDOT films was studied using scanning electron microscopy, showing a homogeneous distribution of Te along the film. Also an a…

Resonance laser ionization spectroscopy of tellurium

2019

Abstract Resonance ionization schemes for tellurium are investigated with a resonance ionization laser ion source and Ti:Sapphire lasers for fundamental research applications. We present the first three-step resonance ionization spectra of atomic Te. Several autoionizing Rydberg series converging to the first excited state of Te+ are observed and assigned to 5p3 (2Do3/2) ns and nd configurations. Our results include confirmation and significant expansion of the Rydberg series previously reported as well as observation of three new series. From the series convergence limits the ionization potential of tellurium is revised to be 72,669.006(42)stat(20)sys cm−1.

Structure and dynamics in amorphous tellurium and Te-n clusters: A density functional study

2012

Density functional/molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on amorphous tellurium (a melt-quenched sample of 343 atoms at 300 K) and on Te clusters with up to 16 atoms. The former extend our calculations on liquid Te at 560, 625, 722, and 970 K [Phys. Rev. B 81, 094202 (2010)]. We discuss trends in structures (including those of other group-16 elements), electronic densities of states, and vibration frequencies. Chain structures are common in S and Se, but the chains in amorphous Te are short, and branching sites with threefold-coordinated atoms are common. The energy difference between two- and threefold local coordination depends sensitively on the exchange-correlation function…

Halogenation of tellurium by SO2Cl2. Formation and crystal structures of (H3O)[Te3Cl13]·1/2SO2, [(C4H8O)2H][TeCl5]·(C4H8O), [(Me2SO)2H]2[TeCl6], and …

2002

Abstract The halogenation of elemental tellurium with SO2Cl2 in various solvents has been investigated. (H3O)[Te3Cl13]·1/2SO2 (1) and [(C4H8O)2H][TeCl5]·(C4H8O) (2) were obtained in CS2 and THF, respectively. When DMSO is added into the THF solution of tellurium and SO2Cl2, [(Me2SO)2H]2[TeCl6] (3) is formed. In the acetonitrile solution tellurium and SO2Cl2 form [Ni(NCCH3)6][Te2Cl10] (4) in the presence of metallic nickel. All compounds 1–4 were characterized by 125Te NMR and by X-ray crystallography. The formation of the anions has been discussed.

Synthesis and characterization of [Mo(μ-EPh)(CO)3(CH3CN)]2 (E=Se, Te), including the X-ray structure of the tellurium derivative

2000

International audience; The reaction of Mo(CO)3(MeCN)3 and E2Ph2 (E=Se, Te) yields the edge-sharing bioctahedral, metalmetal bonded Mo(I) products [Mo(CO)3(MeCN)(μ-EPh)]2. The structure of the tellurolato derivative was confirmed by X-ray crystallography: triclinic, space group , a=7.3149(17), b=9.6959(16), c=9.7090(10) Å, α=80.366(10), β=76.563(13), γ=72.877(16)°, V=636.43(19) Å3, Dcalc=2.222 Mg m−3, μ=3.271 mm−1, R1=0.0418, wR2=0.0689 for 163 parameters and 2238 data with I>2σ(I). The interaction of these compounds with excess E2Ph2 as a possible entry to homoleptic Mo(EPh)3 has been investigated.

Selenium and tellurium nanomaterials

2018

Abstract Over the last 40 years, the rapid and exponential growth of nanotechnology led to the development of various synthesis methodologies to generate nanomaterials different in size, shape and composition to be applied in various fields. In particular, nanostructures composed of Selenium (Se) or Tellurium (Te) have attracted increasing interest, due to their intermediate nature between metallic and non-metallic elements, being defined as metalloids. Indeed, this key shared feature of Se and Te allows us the use of their compounds in a variety of applications fields, such as for manufacturing photocells, photographic exposure meters, piezoelectric devices, and thermoelectric materials, t…

Bis(η-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl)hydridoniobium Ditelluride, a Convenient Reagent for the Synthesis of Polynuclear Metal Telluride Complexes

2002

Precision Measurement of the Mass and Lifetime of the Ξ[0 over b] Baryon

2014

Using a proton-proton collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb$^{-1}$ collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, about 3800 $\Xi_b^0\to\Xi_c^+\pi^-$, $\Xi_c^+\to pK^-\pi^+$ signal decays are reconstructed. From this sample, the first measurement of the $\Xi_b^0$ baryon lifetime is made, relative to that of the $\Lambda_b^0$ baryon. The mass differences $M(\Xi_b^0)-M(\Lambda_b^0)$ and $M(\Xi_c^+)-M(\Lambda_c^+)$ are also measured with precision more than four times better than the current world averages. The resulting values are $\frac{\tau_{\Xi_b^0}}{\tau_{\Lambda_b^0}} = 1.006\pm0.018\pm0.010$, $M(\Xi_b^0) - M(\Lambda_b^0) = 172.44\pm0.39\pm…