Resonance Raman scattering from 1 and 2 LO phonons is investigated from Cd1
-xZnxS nanoparticles dispersed in oxide glass before and after annealing. T
he resonance profiles are found to exhibit asymmetry which is attributed to
the interference effects arising from a nonresonant contribution to the po
larizability. The energies of the resonances are found to be consistent wit
h the direct interband transition energies estimated from the reported opti
cal data. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)06423-9].