Influence of the Substrates Nature on Optical and Structural Characteristics of SnO2 Thin Film Prepared by Sol-Gel Technique

Authors Sumanta Kumar Tripathy1 , Bhabani Prasad Hota2
Affiliations

1 GVP College of Engineering (Autonomous), Madhurawada, Visakhapatanam, A.P., India

2 Godavaris Mahavidyalaya, Banpur, Khurda, Odisha, India

Е-mail sktripathy2009@gmail.com
Issue Volume 5, Year 2013, Number 3
Dates Received 06 February 2013; revised manuscript received 02 July 2013; published online 12 July 2013
Citation Sumanta Kumar Tripathy, Bhabani Prasad Hota, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 5 No 3, 03012 (2012)
DOI
PACS Number(s) 68.37 Hk, 68.55. – a, 78.40. – q
Keywords Rutile structure, SEM (112) , Sol-Gel Method (4) , Transmittance and XRD.
Annotation In this presentation we synthesized SnO2 thin film by sol-gel process. Starting from Tin(II) chloride as precursor and methanol as solvent the film was deposited on glass and quartz substrate by novel dip coating method. Structural and morphological analysis was carried out by X- Ray diffraction (XRD) mea-surement and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Optical characteristics were analyzed from the study of transmission spectrum data obtained by UV / VIS Spectrophotometer. It is observed that the transmission and grain size were more in case of quartz than glass substrate whereas the band gap was more in glass than quartz substrate. From XRD measurement it was confirmed the tetragonal structure of SnO2. EDS analysis depicts the weight percentage of Sn and O as 78.71 % and 21.29 % respectively and also confirms the purity of the film. From the study we concluded that the structural configuration changed a little with change in substrates at same conditions and quartz is the preferable substrate than glass.

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