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Influence of growth temperature on structure of Zinc oxide nanoparticles by solution evaporation method

T. MUNIR1,* , M. UMAIR1, H.S. MUNIR1, A. M. AFZAL1, M. RIZWAN1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, GC University Faisalabad. Pakistan

Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) has been famous for a wide range of application in Opto-electronic and Microelectronic devices. Until now, many different methods such as hydrothermal method, sol-gel method and co-precipitation method have been developed for the synthesis of ZnO nanostructure. In this research paper, ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by simplest and cost effective technique of solution evaporation. The growth temperature varies from (100°C to 200°C) which plays vital role on nanostructure properties. The structural and surface morphology of ZnO nanopowder is characterized by the x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was found that the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles have hexagonal wurtzite structure and average crystallite size increases with increasing temperature. SEM micrograph reveals that the particle sizes increase with increasing the growth temperature..

Keywords

Zinc Oxide, Solution evaporation method, Nanopowder, Hexagonal wurtzite, Crystallite size, X-ray diffraction.

Submitted at: March 13, 2015
Accepted at: March 19, 2015

Citation

T. MUNIR, M. UMAIR, H.S. MUNIR, A. M. AFZAL, M. RIZWAN, Influence of growth temperature on structure of Zinc oxide nanoparticles by solution evaporation method, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 17, Iss. 3-4, pp. 362-366 (2015)