Chemical Synthesis and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles

Authors P.K. Samanta1 , A. Saha2, T. Kamilya3
Affiliations

1 Department of Physics, Ghatal R.S. Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur-721212 India

2 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre, III/LB-8, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700098 India

3 Department of Physics, Narajole Raj College, Paschim Medinipur-721211 India

Е-mail pijush.samanta@gmail.com
Issue Volume 6, Year 2014, Number 4
Dates Received 29 August 2014; revised manuscript received 27 November 2014; published online 29 November 2014
Citation P.K. Samanta, A. Saha, T. Kamilya, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 6 No 4, 04015 (2014)
DOI
PACS Number(s) 78.67.Bf, 78.67.Rb, 87.64. – t
Keywords ZnO (92) , Chemical-synthesis (2) , FESEM (8) , Absorption (17) , Band-gap (2) .
Annotation We report here a simple wet chemical process to synthesize ZnO nanoparticles. The morphology of the nanoparticles was observed in field emission scanning electron microscope. The nanoparticles have average diameter ~ 100 nm. The optical property of the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles was investigated using UV-visible absorption spectra. The synthesized nanoparticles exhibit strong absorption at ~ 279 nm. The band gap of the nanoparticles was calculated from the absorption spectrum and found to be 3.76 eV. Thus the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles will be useful in various optoelectronic applications.

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