Preparation and Characterisation of Pure and Zn-doped SnO2 Nanoparticles

Authors

  • K. Sujatha  Assistant Professor, PG Department of Physics, Vellalar College for Women,Thindal, Tamilnadu, India
  • T. Seethalakshmi  Assistant Professor, PG Department of Physics, Karur Government College, Karur, Tamilnadu, India.

Keywords:

SnO2, Zn doping, FESEM, Optical Properties; Co-Precipitation Method.

Abstract

In this report,Pure and Zn- doped SnO2 nano powders were synthesized by co-precipitation method. The structure, surface morphology, optical, and functional groups were analyzed by X- ray diffraction, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope(FESEM), UV-Vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), photoluminescence spectra, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy(EDAX) and cyclic voltammetric method, respectively. The results were compared with pure tin oxide nanoparticle. X-ray analysis shows that the obtained power has tetragonal rutile type structure with average crystallite size of 34 nm which reduced to 9 nm with Zn addition. Increase in band gap is observed from UV-Vis spectroscopy by the addition of zinc in SnO2. PL spectrum of the pure and doped samples detected two strong emission peaks at 437nm, 465nm due to the surface defect and oxygen vacancies in SnO2 nanoparticles. The electrochemical nature of the samples has been studied using cyclic voltammetric method.Thus the co-precipitation method is convenient, easy, simple, low cost and effective synthesis of nanoparticles.

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K. Sujatha, T. Seethalakshmi, " Preparation and Characterisation of Pure and Zn-doped SnO2 Nanoparticles, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 3, Issue 8, pp.639-642, November-December-2017.