Growth of ZnO nanoparticles at low temperature and optical properties

Wenming Ma; Junsheng Yu; Zhaolin Yuan; Yadong Jiang

doi:10.1117/12.866757

22 October 2010 Growth of ZnO nanoparticles at low temperature and optical properties

Wenming Ma, Junsheng Yu, Zhaolin Yuan, Yadong Jiang

Proceedings Volume 7658, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Detector, Imager, Display, and Energy Conversion Technology; 76583P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.866757
Event: 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies, 2010, Dalian, China

Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) has a wide direct band gap of 3.37 eV at room temperature and a large excitonic binding energy of 60 meV. In this work, ZnO nanoparticles had been successfully fabricated at low temperature (60 °C). The structures, morphologies and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), UV-Visible absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectra, respectively. Measurement results of XRD showed that the as-prepared ZnO nanoparticles are a random orientation. The nanoparticles are approximately particle shape with an average size of about 50 nm by SEM observation, UV-Vis absorption spectrum indicated that the as-prepared ZnO nanoparticles dispersed in chloroform are highly transparent in the visible region and have a strong absorption band in the UV region, at the same time, we found a sharp absorption edge at near 370 nm. In addition, in the as-prepared ZnO nanoparticles/chloroform solution, both a near band edge (NBE) ultraviolet photoluminescence peak at 372 nm and a defect related deep level emission (DLE) green peak at 513 nm were observed. It suggested that the NBE photoluminescence peak should be attributed to free excitons transition, the DLE green peak should be ascribed to intrinsic defects of the single ionized oxygen vacancy (V_o ^*) through our research results. Furthermore, we obtained R (R=I_NBE/I_DLE) value as 0.91. This indicates that there are a large amount of single ionized oxygen vacancies in as-prepared ZnO nanoparticles, which results in poor crystalline quality of ZnO nanoparticles.

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Wenming Ma, Junsheng Yu, Zhaolin Yuan, and Yadong Jiang "Growth of ZnO nanoparticles at low temperature and optical properties", Proc. SPIE 7658, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Detector, Imager, Display, and Energy Conversion Technology, 76583P (22 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.866757

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