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Structural and Luminescence Properties of Highly Crystalline ZnO Nanoparticles Prepared by Sol–Gel Method

Wiem Bousslama1, Habib Elhouichet1,2, Bernard Gelloz3, Brigitte Sieber4, Ahmed Addad4, Myriam Moreau5, Mokhtar Férid1, and Nobuyoshi Koshida6

1Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Minéraux et leurs Applications, Centre National de Recherches en Sciences des Matériaux, B.P. 95 Hammam-Lif, 2050, Tunisia
2Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus El Manar 2092, Tunisia
3Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
4UMET, UMR CNRS 8207, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cédex, France
5LASIR UMR CNRS 8516, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cédex, France
6Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan

(Received September 26, 2011; accepted December 6, 2011; published online April 20, 2012)

ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized using sol–gel method. The structural and optical properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution TEM (HRTEM), Raman spectroscopy, and photoluminescence (PL). XRD analysis demonstrates that the nanoparticles have the hexagonal wurtzite structure and the particle size is increased with annealing temperature. The average size of the nanoparticles was determined by SEM as well as XRD data and found to be ∼50 nm after annealing at 800 °C. A sharp, strong and dominant UV emission with a suppressed green emission has been observed at 300 and 10 K, indicating the good optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles. The 10 K UV band is dominated by a neutral-donor bound exciton, and the surface-related SX emission at 3.31 eV is evidenced.

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DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.51.04DG13


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