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Effects of aluminum (Al) incorporation on structural, optical and thermal properties of ZnO nanoparticles

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Title Effects of aluminum (Al) incorporation on structural, optical and thermal properties of ZnO nanoparticles
 
Creator Ahammed, Nashiruddin
Hassan, Md Samim
Hassan, Mehedi
 
Subject Engineering Materials
 
Description In this research article, pure and 1 %, 3 % and 5 % aluminium doped zinc oxide nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared via sol-gel method and then calcined at 500 °C. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) techniques were used to investigate the structural, optical and thermal properties of synthesized pure and Al doped ZnO nanoparticles. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analysis revealed high purity of nanoparticles in the synthesized products without any impurity peaks. Mean dimension of the nanoparticles was ~28 nm and they were hexagonal in shape,according to the images analyzed by transmission electron microscope (TEM). The optical absorption spectra of pure and Al doped ZnO samples studied using UV-Vis spectrometry have been presented and we have observed that the band gap increases with increasing Al concentration. In FT-IR spectra, the broad absorption peaks around 485 cm
 
Publisher University of Technology
 
Date 2018-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/4512/1/mehedi.pdf
Ahammed, Nashiruddin and Hassan, Md Samim and Hassan, Mehedi (2018) Effects of aluminum (Al) incorporation on structural, optical and thermal properties of ZnO nanoparticles. Materials Science-Poland , 36 (3). pp. 419-426. ISSN 0137-1339
 
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