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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2009, Article ID 860536, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2009/860536 Research Article Electron Microscopy and Optical Characterization of Cadmium Sulphide Nanocrystals Deposited on the Patterned Surface of Diatom Biosilica Timothy Gutu,1 Debra K. Gale,2 Clayton Jeffryes,2 Wei Wang,2 Chih-hung Chang,2 Gregory L. Rorrer,2 and Jun Jiao1 1 Department of Physics, Portland State University, OR 97201, USA 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 97331, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Jun Jiao, jiaoj@ Received 18 December 2008; Accepted 19 February 2009 Recommended by Gong-Ru Lin Intricately patterned biosilica obtained from the shell of unicellular algae called diatoms serve as novel templates for fabrication of optoelectronic nanostructures. In this study, the surface of diatom frustules that possessed hierarchical architecture ordered at the micro and nanoscale was coated with a nanostructured polycrystalline cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin film using a chemical bath deposition technique. The CdS thin film was composed of spherical nanoparticles with a diameter of about 75 nm. The CdS nanoparticle thin film imparted new photoluminescent properties to the intricately patterned diatom nanostructure. The imparted photoluminescent properties were dependent on the CdS coverage onto the frustules surface. The intrinsic photoluminescent properties of the frustules were strongly quenched by the deposited CdS. The origin of PL spectra was discussed on the basis of the band theory and native defects. Copyright © 2009 Timothy Gutu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,