scholarly journals Investigation of Structural, Magnetic, and Optical Properties of ZnO Codoped with Co and Cd

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubna Mustafa ◽  
Safia Anjum ◽  
Salma Waseem ◽  
Rehana Zia ◽  
Rameesha Choudhry ◽  
...  

Co and Cd have been codoped in ZnO using a simple solid state reaction technique to synthesize dilute magnetic oxide semiconductors of composition Zn0.9Co0.1−xCdxO (x = 0.0-0.1with an increment of 0.02). Hexagonal wurtzite structure has been obtained for samples up tox = 0.06, using X-ray diffractometry. However, atx = 0.08and 0.1, secondary peak of CdO is observed. Raman spectra of the samples have been obtained in 200–800 cm−1range. UV-VIS spectrophotometer is used to study the optical properties, which shows that band gap energy decreases with the increase in Cd concentration. A weak ferromagnetic behavior was evident which decreased further by adding Cd in the series. Room temperature resistivity measurements performed using four-point probe technique showed that their values lie in the semiconductor range. Structural morphology of the samples has been investigated by a scanning electron microscope and grain size has been determined. Raman spectra and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed the successful incorporation of Co and Cd ions into the host ZnO lattice.

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (05) ◽  
pp. 1450073 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOMAYEH AZIZI ◽  
HAMID REZAGHOLIPOUR DIZAJI ◽  
MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN EHSANI ◽  
SEYED FEYZOLAH GHAVAMI MIRMAHALLE

Cd 0.8 Zn 0.2 S thin films deposited on glass substrates by thermal evaporation method were annealed at different temperatures for the first time in order to investigate annealing effect on optical properties. The compositional, structural of nanoparticles precursor synthesized using microwave irradiation method and optical properties of the films were studied using energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and UV-visible spectrophotometer techniques. The annealed films were found to have hexagonal Wurtzite structure with strong preferential orientation along the (002) diffraction peak. Important optical parameters such as extinction coefficient and refractive index revealed the effect of heat treatment on the deposited thin layers. A reduction in the band gap energy from 2.41 eV to 2.29 eV was observed for the annealed samples.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 5256-5261
Author(s):  
Lubna Mustafa ◽  
Safia Anjum ◽  
Salma Waseem ◽  
Hafsa Khurshid ◽  
Rameesha Choudhary ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (16) ◽  
pp. 162403 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Wu ◽  
S. Y. Huang ◽  
W. C. Lee ◽  
Y. H. Chang ◽  
T. S. Wu ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Badreddine ◽  
I. Kazah ◽  
M. Rekaby ◽  
R. Awad

Nano crystalline Zn1-xSmxO, (0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.10), were prepared by wet chemical coprecipitation method. The effect of samarium doping on the structural, morphological, optical, and magnetic properties of ZnO nanoparticles was examined by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV) and M-H magnetic hysteresis. XRD analysis showed the hexagonal wurtzite structure of ZnO. The absence of Sm2O3 as separate phase may be attributed to the complete dissolving of samarium in ZnO lattice. The lattice parameters (a and c) of Zn1-xSmxO were calculated and they fluctuated with the increase of Sm doping which indicated that the structure of ZnO was perturbed by the doping of Sm. The crystallite size was computed for all the samples using Debye-Scherrer’s method. The crystallite size decreased with the increase of Sm doping. TEM micrographs revealed that the size and the shape of the ZnO nanocomposites were changed by modifying the doping level of samarium. FTIR analysis spectrum confirmed the formation of ZnO phase and revealed a peak shift between pure and Sm-doped ZnO. The band gap energy and Urbach energy were calculated for Zn1-xSmxO, (0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.10). The band energy gaps of pure and Sm doped ZnO samples are in the range 2.6–2.98 eV. M-H hysteresis inspection, at room temperature, showed that the pure ZnO exhibited a ferromagnetic behavior incorporated with diamagnetic and paramagnetic contributions. Ferromagnetic behavior was reduced for the doped samples with x=0.01 and x=0.04. The samples with x=0.02 and 0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.10 tend to be superparamagnetic. The saturation magnetization (Ms), the coercivity (Hc), and the retentivity (Mr) were recorded for Zn1-xSmxO, (0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.10).


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 20402
Author(s):  
Kaoutar Benthami ◽  
Mai ME. Barakat ◽  
Samir A. Nouh

Nanocomposite (NCP) films of polycarbonate-polybutylene terephthalate (PC-PBT) blend as a host material to Cr2O3 and CdS nanoparticles (NPs) were fabricated by both thermolysis and casting techniques. Samples from the PC-PBT/Cr2O3 and PC-PBT/CdS NCPs were irradiated using different doses (20–110 kGy) of γ radiation. The induced modifications in the optical properties of the γ irradiated NCPs have been studied as a function of γ dose using UV Vis spectroscopy and CIE color difference method. Optical dielectric loss and Tauc's model were used to estimate the optical band gaps of the NCP films and to identify the types of electronic transition. The value of optical band gap energy of PC-PBT/Cr2O3 NCP was reduced from 3.23 to 3.06 upon γ irradiation up to 110 kGy, while it decreased from 4.26 to 4.14 eV for PC-PBT/CdS NCP, indicating the growth of disordered phase in both NCPs. This was accompanied by a rise in the refractive index for both the PC-PBT/Cr2O3 and PC-PBT/CdS NCP films, leading to an enhancement in their isotropic nature. The Cr2O3 NPs were found to be more effective in changing the band gap energy and refractive index due to the presence of excess oxygen atoms that help with the oxygen atoms of the carbonyl group in increasing the chance of covalent bonds formation between the NPs and the PC-PBT blend. Moreover, the color intensity, ΔE has been computed; results show that both the two synthesized NCPs have a response to color alteration by γ irradiation, but the PC-PBT/Cr2O3 has a more response since the values of ΔE achieved a significant color difference >5 which is an acceptable match in commercial reproduction on printing presses. According to the resulting enhancement in the optical characteristics of the developed NCPs, they can be a suitable candidate as activate materials in optoelectronic devices, or shielding sheets for solar cells.


Author(s):  
Atefeh Nazari Setayesh ◽  
Hassan Sedghi

Background: In this work, CdS thin films were synthesized by sol-gel method (spin coating technique) on glass substrates to investigate the optical behavior of the film. Methods: Different substrate spin coating speeds of 2400, 3000, 3600 rpm and different Ni dopant concentrations of 0 wt.%, 2.5 wt.%, 5 wt.%) were investigated. The optical properties of thin films such as refraction index, extinction coefficient, dielectric constant and optical band gap energy of the layers were discussed using spectroscopic ellipsometry method in the wavelength range of 300 to 900 nm. Results: It can be deduced that substrate rotation speed and dopant concentration has influenced the optical properties of thin films. By decreasing rotation speed of the substrate which results in films with more thicknesses, more optical interferences were appeared in the results. Conclusion: The samples doped with Ni comparing to pure ones have had more optical band gap energy.


Author(s):  
Minakshi Chaudhary ◽  
Yogesh Hase ◽  
Ashwini Punde ◽  
Pratibha Shinde ◽  
Ashish Waghmare ◽  
...  

: Thin films of PbS were prepared onto glass substrates by using a simple and cost effective CBD method. Influence of deposition time on structural, morphology and optical properties have been investigated systematically. The XRD analysis revealed that PbS films are polycrystalline with preferred orientation in (200) direction. Enhancement in crystallinity and PbS crystallite size has been observed with increase in deposition time. Formation of single phase PbS thin films has been further confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. The surface morphology analysis revealed the formation of prismatic and pebble-like PbS particles and with increase in deposition time these PbS particles are separated from each other without secondary growth. The data obtained from the EDX spectra shows the formation of high-quality but slightly sulfur rich PbS thin films over the entire range of deposition time studied. All films show increase in absorption with increase in deposition time and a strong absorption in the visible and sub-band gap regime of NIR range of the spectrum with red shift in band edge. The optical band gap shows decreasing trend, as deposition time increases but it is higher than the band gap of bulk PbS.


Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 882
Author(s):  
Yuechan Li ◽  
Yongli Li ◽  
An Xie

Doping impurity into ZnO is an effective and powerful technique to tailor structures and enhance its optical properties. In this work, Zn1−xMgxO and Zn1−x−yMgxByO nanoparticles (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4; y = 0, 0.02, 0.04) were synthesized via one-pot method. It shows that the Mg and B dopants has great influence on crystallinity and surface morphology of ZnO nanoparticles, without changing the wurtzite structure of ZnO. The band structure study indicates that the competition of Conductive Band (CB) shift, Burstein–Moss (B-M) shift and Shrinkage effect will cause the band gap energy change in ZnO.


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