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Tailoring the optical properties of tin oxide thin films via gamma irradiation

  • Ateyyah M. Al-Baradi EMAIL logo , Ahmed A. Atta , Ali Badawi ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Saud A. Algarni , Abdulraheem S. A. Almalki , Sameh I. Ahmed , Ahmed Ashour , Abdullah SA. Alsubaie , Ali M. Hassanien and Mahmoud M. El-Nahass
Published/Copyright: October 4, 2021
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A Volume 76 Issue 12

Abstract

In the current work, the optical properties of tin oxide thin films have been tailored via gamma irradiation for energy applications. The effect of Gamma radiation (50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 kGy) on the microstructural, absorption and oscillator parameters of SnO2 thin films has been investigated. XRD results reveal that the SnO2 films have the symmetry of the space group P42/mnm belonging to the tetragonal system. The crystallite size of γ-irradiated SnO2 thin film slightly increases as the irradiation dose increases. The allowed optical band gaps are estimated by applying various methods such as Tauc’s method, derivation of absorption spectrum fitting and absorption spectrum fitting approaches. The dispersion parameters are extracted from the dispersion curve of the real part of the refractive index. The single-effective-oscillator and Drude models for free charge carrier absorption are applied to obtain the dispersion parameters before and after γ-irradiation.

Keywords: γ-irradiation; energy production and storage; optical properties; SnO2thin films; X-ray diffraction
Corresponding authors : Ateyyah M. Al-Baradi, Department of Physics, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia, E-mail: ; and Ali Badawi, Department of Physics, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia; and Department of Physics, Turabah University College, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia, E-mail:

Funding source: Deanship of Scientific Research, Taif University, KSA

Award Identifier / Grant number: 1-440-6136

  1. Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: This study was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Taif University, KSA [research project number: 1 - 440 - 6136].

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2021-07-30
Accepted: 2021-09-19
Published Online: 2021-10-04
Published in Print: 2021-12-20

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Keywords for this article
γ-irradiation; energy production and storage; optical properties; SnO2thin films; X-ray diffraction

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Dynamical Systems & Nonlinear Phenomena
  3. Study of shocks in a nonideal dusty gas using Maslov, Guderley, and CCW methods for shock exponents
  4. Nonlinear excitations and dynamic features of dust ion-acoustic waves in a magnetized electron–positron–ion plasma
  5. Bifurcation analysis in a predator–prey model with strong Allee effect
  6. Hydrodynamics
  7. Mixed initial-boundary value problems describing motions of Maxwell fluids with linear dependence of viscosity on the pressure
  8. Quantum Theory
  9. Spin coherent states, Bell states, spin Hamilton operators, entanglement, Husimi distribution, uncertainty relation and Bell inequality
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  12. Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics
  13. Impact of partially thermal electrons on the propagation characteristics of extraordinary mode in relativistic regime
  14. The first-order phase transition of melting for molecular crystals by Frost–Kalkwarf vapor- and sublimation-pressure equations
  15. Mathieu-state reordering in periodic thermodynamics
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