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<journal-id>0035-001X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de física]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. fis.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0035-001X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Mexicana de Física]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0035-001X2022000400020</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31349/revmexfis.68.041601</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Comparative energy bandgap analysis of zinc and tin based chalcogenide quantum dots]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Irshad Ahamed]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Sivaranjani]]></surname>
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<institution><![CDATA[,E.G.S. Pillay Engineering College Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Tamilnadu ]]></addr-line>
<country>India</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Bimberg Chinese-Germen Centre for Green Photonics Chinese Academy of Science at Changchun Institute of Optics ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Changchun ]]></addr-line>
<country>Republic of China</country>
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<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Kalavakkam Tamilnadu]]></addr-line>
<country>India</country>
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<aff id="Af4">
<institution><![CDATA[,Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering Department of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Nagoya ]]></addr-line>
<country>Japan</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>68</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0035-001X2022000400020&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0035-001X2022000400020&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0035-001X2022000400020&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Semiconductors with wide bandgaps play an important role in the use of optoelectronic and energy related devices due to their electron confinement, high optical transparency and tunable electrical conductivity. Therefore, in this study, the quantum confinement effect of chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals such as ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe, SnS, SnSe and SnTe is studied using the Brus model (by effective mass approximation approach), the hyperbolic model and the cohesive energy model. The obtained results indicate that the value of the energy bandgap differs from the bulk crystals related to the quantum confinement effect. These verdicts confirm the quantum confinement effects of materials and their potential applications in optoelectronic devices. Theoretical findings are compared with the corresponding valid experimental data.]]></p></abstract>
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