Hierarchical band gaps in complex periodic systems by Dunckley, Lucas, Davies, Bryn

“…This result shows that if a frequency falls in a band gap for every constituent element then it must be in a band gap for the combined complex periodic structure. …”
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Study of Band Gap of Silver Nanoparticles—Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites by P. Barone, F. Stranges, M. Barberio, D. Renzelli, A. Bonanno, F. Xu

“…Measurements of optical band gap, obtained by Tauc’s equation, indicate a variation of about 1.6 eV.…”
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Investigation on the Band Gap and Negative Properties of Concentric Ring Acoustic Metamaterial by Meng Chen, Dan Meng, Heng Jiang, Yuren Wang

“…It can be seen that the number of oscillators in the cell is closely related to the number of band gaps due to the coupling effect, when the filling rate is of a certain value.…”
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Surface Plasmon-Induced Band Gap in the Photocurrent Response of Organic Solar Cells by Ribal Georges Sabat, Marcos Jose Leite Santos, Paul Rochon

“…Angle-dependent surface plasmons (SPs) with a large band gap were observed in the normalized photocurrent by the P3HT-PCBM layer as a function of wavelength. …”
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Quantitative Analysis and Band Gap Determination for CIGS Absorber Layers Using Surface Techniques by Yun Jung Jang, Jihye Lee, Kang-Bong Lee, Donghwan Kim, Yeonhee Lee

“…CIGS material is particularly promising due to its exceptionally high absorption coefficient and large band gap range, which is adjustable as a function of alloy stoichiometry. …”
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Tuning the Refractive Index and Optical Band Gap of Silk Fibroin Films by Electron Irradiation by S. Asha, Y. Sangappa, Sanjeev Ganesh

“…It was found that the reduction in optical band gap and increase in refractive index with increasing radiation dosage was observed. …”
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Effect of Electronic Acceptor Segments on Photophysical Properties of Low-Band-Gap Ambipolar Polymers by Yuanzuo Li, Jingang Cui, Jianing Zhao, Jinglin Liu, Peng Song, Fengcai Ma

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Oxygen-modulated photoresponse in nickel oxide thin films for wide band gap photodetector application by Swati Suman, Anupama Behra, Parasuraman Swaminathan

“…Abstract Metal oxides, due to their wide band gap, are well suited for use in photodetectors as the active light-absorbing layer. …”
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Enhancing Carriers’ Confinement by Introducing BAlGaN Quantum Barriers for the Better Optoelectronic Performance of Deep UV LEDs by Jamshad Bashir, Muhammad Usman, Dmitri Sergeevich Arteev, Zoya Noor, Ahmed Ali

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Beyond the K-valley: exploring unique trion states in indirect band gap monolayer WSe2 by Carl Emil Mørch Nielsen, Franz Fischer, Gabriel Bester

“…Abstract We calculate the optical properties of monolayer WSe2 using ab initio many-body screened configuration interaction. For this indirect band gap material we describe additional species of negatively charged trions involving the Q-valley which are energetically more favorable than those formed at the K-valley. …”
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Near-Field Microwave Resonating Sensor for Chronic Bone Assessment through Novel Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures by Karthikeyan Abirami, Rajesh Anbazhagan, Ravikumar Chinthaginjala, C. Manikandan, Tai-Hoon Kim, Hamad A. AI-Lohedan, Young Jin Jung

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Effects of Controlling the AZO Thin Film's Optical Band Gap on AZO/MEH-PPV Devices with Buffer Layer by Jaehyoung Park, Ki-Chang Jung, Ari Lee, Hyojung Bae, Daehwa Mun, Jun-Seok Ha, Young-Bu Mun, E. M. Han, Hang-Ju Ko

“…The band gaps were controlled by varying the flow rates of Ar and O2 used to deposit the AZO. …”
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Effects of the Argon Pressure on the Optical Band Gap of Zinc Oxide Thin Films Grown by Nonreactive RF Sputtering by M. Acosta, I. Riech, E. Martín-Tovar

“…After annealing at 200°C and 500°C, optical band gaps decrease considerably. The observed widening of the band gap with increasing PAr can be understood as being a consequence of the poorer crystallinity of films grown at higher pressures. …”
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Three-periodic 1D photonic crystals based on dielectric oxides SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2, ZrO2: an emerging class of structures with wide possibilities for applied photonics by I.S. Panyaev, D.G. Sannikov, Yu.S. Dadoenkova, N.N. Dadoenkova

Subjects: “…photonic band gap (pbg)…”
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Characterization of Synthetic Ni(II)-Xylenol Complex as a Photosensitizer for Wide-Band Gap ZnO Semiconductor Electrodes by Suman Kushwaha, Lal Bahadur

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Modelling and performance analysis of amorphous silicon solar cell using wide band gap nc‐Si:H window layer by Haris Mehmood, Tauseef Tauqeer

“…Limited performance of such devices has been addressed by replacing a‐SiC:H with a wide band gap (∼2 eV) hydrogenated nano‐crystalline silicon (nc‐Si:H) layer that reportedly exhibits crystalline properties at small scale. …”
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Optical band gap modulation in functionalized chitosan biopolymer hybrids using absorption and derivative spectrum fitting methods: A spectroscopic analysis by Dyari M. Mamand, Dana S. Muhammad, Daron Q. Muheddin, Karzan A. Abdalkarim, Dana A. Tahir, Hawkar A. Muhammad, Shujahadeen B. Aziz, Sarkawt A. Hussen, Jamal Hassan

“…The results indicate that CS with Mn2+-complexes can produce polymer hybrids with high absorption, high refractive index and controlled optical band gaps, with a significant reduction from 6.24 eV to 1.21 eV. …”
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Strain Effects on the Band Gap and Diameter of CdSe Core and CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots at Any Temperature by Md. Rezaul Karim, Mesut Balaban, Hilmi Ünlü

“…We present the results of an experimental study about strain effects on the core band gap and diameter of spherical bare CdSe core and CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) synthesized by using a colloidal technique at varying temperatures. …”
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Determination of Structural and Optical Properties of Zn1-xCuxO Nanoparticles by Chemical Bath Deposition Waste Recovery Technique by Emin Yakar

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Elastic Properties and the Band Gap of AlNxP1-x Semiconductor Alloy: A Comparative Study of Various Ab Initio Approaches by M. P. Polak, M. J. Winiarski, K. Wittek, P. Scharoch

“…The band gap bowings are unusually high, which confirms earlier reports.…”
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