scholarly journals Rutile to anatase phase transition induced by N doping in highly oriented TiO2 films

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 24722-24728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Breeson ◽  
Gopinathan Sankar ◽  
Gregory Kia Liang Goh ◽  
Robert G. Palgrave

Highly oriented TiO2 thin films were deposited onto Al2O3(0001), SrTiO3(001), and LaAlO3(001) substrates by spin coating a titanium alkoxide precursor solution followed by annealing.

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (54) ◽  
pp. 30966-30977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipta Mukherjee ◽  
Arjun Dey ◽  
A. Carmel Mary Esther ◽  
N. Sridhara ◽  
D. Raghavendra Kumar ◽  
...  

Smooth, uniform mixed valance vanadium oxide (VO) thin films are grown on flexible, transparent Kapton and opaque Al6061 substrates by the spin coating technique at a constant rpm of 3000.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 826-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Potlog ◽  
M. Dobromir ◽  
D. Luca ◽  
P. Onufrijevs ◽  
A. Medvids ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. SENTHIL ◽  
M. THAMBIDURAI ◽  
N. MUTHUKUMARASAMY ◽  
R. BALASUNDARAPRABHU

TiO2 thin films have been deposited onto well cleaned glass substrates by sol–gel spin coating method. The prepared TiO2 films have been annealed at different temperatures (350°C, 450°C and 550°C). The structural properties of the films have been studied using X-ray diffraction method and High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM). The as-deposited films have been found to be amorphous in nature. The crystalline quality has been observed to improve with annealing temperature. The annealed TiO2 films have been found to exhibit anatase phase. The optical properties have been studied using transmittance spectrum.


Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emile Salomon Massima Mouele ◽  
Siphelo Ngqoloda ◽  
Sara Pescetelli ◽  
Aldo Di Carlo ◽  
Mihaela Dinu ◽  
...  

Producing active thin films coated on supports resolves many issues of powder-based photo catalysis and energy harvesting. In this study, thin films of C-N-TiO2 were prepared by dynamic spin coating of C-N-TiO2 sol-gel on glass support. The effect of spin speed and sol gel precursor to solvent volume ratio on the film thickness was investigated. The C-N-TiO2-coated glass was annealed at 350 °C at a ramping rate of 10 °C/min with a holding time of 2 hours under a continuous flow of dry N2. The C-N-TiO2 films were characterised by profilometry analysis, light microscopy (LM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The outcomes of this study proved that a spin coating technique followed by an annealing process to stabilise the layer could be used for immobilisation of the photo catalyst on glass. The exposure of C-N-TiO2 films to UV radiation induced photocatalytic decolouration of orange II (O.II) dye. The prepared C-N-TiO2 films showed a reasonable power conversion efficiency average (PCE of 9%) with respect to the reference device (15%). The study offers a feasible route for the engineering of C-N-TiO2 films applicable to wastewater remediation processes and energy harvesting in solar cell technologies.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahyunir Dahlan

<p>The synthesis of Fe-doped TiO<sub>2</sub> thin film using spin coating method was studied. Effects of aging time on the deposited thin film were investigated. Titanium butoxide (C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>36</sub>O<sub>4</sub>Ti) as a precursor solution was mixed with the FeCl<sub>3</sub>. Spin coating process was carried out on three types of precursor solution: (1) spin-coating process performed immediately after the precursor solution was made, (2) spin-coating process performed after solution was aged for 24 hours, (3) aged for 24 and (4) spin-coating after aging the precursor for 72 hours. Heating was carried out on the resulting thin film at temperature of 400 °C. The morphology of TiO<sub>2</sub> layers was characterized using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Elemental and phase composition of the films was determined using EDX and X-ray diffraction (XRD). We found that the best TiO<sub>2</sub> layer is obtained when spin-coating process is done after aging the precursor for 72 hours. The layer shows a more uniform particle distribution on the substrate and a more monodisperse particle size dominated by the anatase phase.</p>


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2404-2407 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kashani ◽  
M.S. Tomar ◽  
E. Dayalan

Stoichiometric Sr1−xBaxNb2O6 (SBN) powder and thin films were prepared by a chemical method. The starting materials were niobium ethoxide and the hydroxides of strontium and barium. Powders were obtained by evaporation of the precursor solution, and thin films were deposited by spin coating. Annealing temperature required to obtain complete conversion to the crystalline material was about 700 °C. Stoichiometric polycrystalline films of Sr1−xBaxNb2O6 were deposited on quartz and silicon substrates. Leakage current-voltage and the capacitance-voltage measurements on a metal/SBN/n-silicon structure show a diode-type characteristic.


2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (7) ◽  
pp. 1563-1570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Ja Kim ◽  
Van-Son Dang ◽  
Ke Xu ◽  
Davide Barreca ◽  
Chiara Maccato ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elhachmi Guettaf Temam ◽  
Faiçal Djani ◽  
Saad Rahmane ◽  
Hachemi Ben Temam ◽  
Brahim Gasmi

Abstract Photocatalytic activity of semiconductors is affected by the nature of metal dopant. To study the effect of non-transition and transition metal on the physical and optical properties of TiO2 based photocatalysts; Al and Ni-doped TiO2 thin films respectively were prepared via a sol-gel dip-coating method. The effect of the photocatalysis process on the properties of TiO2 based thin films was investigated. The photocatalytic activity was calculated from methylene blue dye degradation under sunlight irradiation. XRD results show that un-doped TiO2 films were grown with anatase phase, whereas, the Ni and Ni/Al-doped TiO2 films show Ti4O7 single phase. The presence of Al preferred the rutile phase. No phases related to NiO or Al2O3 were detected. Ni-TiO2 photocatalyst shows high photocatalytic activity (~ 93%) thanks to the high content of O and Ti, wide bandgap (3.35 eV), low crystal size (6.87 nm), high film thickness (288 nm), and high surface roughness (44.5 nm). After photocatalysis, all the films show a decrease in O content and thickness, whereas the indirect bandgap values were increased which suggesting the reuse with low photocatalytic activity.


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