Abstract
Zinc oxide and cadmium selenide particles in the nanometer size regime have been synthesized using chemical routes. The particles were capped using thioglycerol in case of ZnO and 2-mercaptoethanol in case of CdSe to achieve the stability and avoid the coalescence. Zinc oxide nanoparticles were doped with europium to study their optical properties. A variety of techniques like UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to carry out structural and spectroscopic characterizations of the nanoparticles.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 615-620 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Pramana - Journal of Physics |
Volume | 65 |
Issue number | 4 SPEC. ISS. |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2005 |
Keywords
- Chemical capping
- Doping
- Nanoparticles
- Photoluminescence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy