Photoluminescence analysis is a useful method to study the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Distinct processes take place to result in the light emission from the nanostructure. Various deposition methods and morphologies changed the emission band in semiconductor nanostructures. Three different morphology of Lead Sulfide structures such as nonospheres, star-shaped and dendrite nanostructures have been analyzed and the Photoluminescence results were compared. In three cases, band emissions are in visible region and it was observed that the incidence of quantum limits in resulting of increasing surface to volume ratio is impressive to optical properties. Manuscript profile

Lead sulfide (PbS) nanostructures are one of the possible candidates to be used in modern optic devices. It can be deposited by various methods. Composition of the deposited layers and their optical properties can be determined by Raman spectroscopy. In this work, Raman features of PbS nanostructures are discussed in detail. Several different morphology of PbS nanostructures such as nonocubics, hexapod and octahedron was studied. Their size and morphologies are expressed and discussed about their Raman spectrum. In each case, represented the reason of the any Raman peaks and finally, it has been tried to be a comparison between them. Manuscript profile