Do you want to write an article or do you want to promote science?

Dear Bakhtiyar Madaminov thank you for posting this interesting technical question on RG. The question is somewhat unusual because writing an article is normally the second step after doing research. In your case I strongly suggest that you should first carry out a thorough literature search on this topic. ZnS is a material that has been intensively investigated by all kinds of chemical and physical methods. Thus it will be a difficult task to indentify new aspects of studying ZnS. My suggestion would be to use RG directly as a valuable source of information. You mentioned that you "also have the opportunity to irradiate the samples". This leads me to the question of what kind of irradiation you have in mind. ZnS can be irradiated e.g. with neutrons, infrared, ion beams, lasers, deuterons, gamma rays, UV etc. For more information about this aspect, please search RG for the term "irradiation of ZnS" and then click on "Publications". This will provide you with a list of potentially useful articles which have been posted by RG members, some of them even as public full texts. Others can be obtained by directly contacting the researchers via RG and requesting the full texts.

I hope this gives you some initial ideas. Good luck with your work and best wishes, Frank Edelmann

I agree with Dr. Edelmann; in complement, to his answer, I suggest a search about X-ray diffraction measurements on this sample. Can you heat or compress the sample?

P. Grima Gallardo , I can do gamma irradiation, beta radiation, heating, micro-hardening, sweating spectrometer.

Mr. professor Andreas Leineweber. I want to start my scientific activity. To do this, I want to ask from scientists some kind of direction or problems that are currently relevant. It will be an idea to write my article.

Maybe you would use these techniques as a function of heating temperature.

P. Grima Gallardo What processes can be observed under the influence of heating?

Bakhtiyar Madaminov,

Before writing of any an article you must be have sufficient scientific data. Therefore, you may try the Vertical directional solidification process (VDS-Process) for the growth of single crystals, which is uploaded on RG.

Then irradiate samples by the appropriate method.

ZnS sphalerite is frequently contaminated by Fe. I know that Raman or IR spectra strongly show many peaks related to the Fe. 1) We do not fully understand the effect on doping ZnS. You have the tools to study it.

2) Then try it out on nanowires, you will find a lot of industrial interests in the field. 3) I’ve not seen much on doping ZnS with something other than Fe. For fun, I would look to see what happens with other chemistries.

Sphalerite, when transparent orange, such as found in Spain, is also known as the philosopher stone. There is wisdom to be gotten from the study of sphalerite.