Impact of annealing temperature on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Ni doped ZnO nanostructured thin films synthesized by sol–gel methodology
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Balaprakash Vadivel
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Thangavel Krishnasamy
Abstract
Nickel doped zinc oxide (NZO) nanostructured thin films were prepared by hydrolysis and poly condensation reaction based on the sol–gel methodology. Nanostructured thin films were prepared over the glass substrate by dip coating. Prepared samples were annealed at 350 °C and 450 °C respectively to tune the desired characteristics. The XRD studies endorses the prepared films were polycrystalline in nature and high intensity sharp peaks were exhibited in (101) direction. EDAX results confirms the presence of Ni, Zn and O elements. FESEM results exhibits the spherical like morphology throughout the sample. The typical grain size of prepared samples are vary from 35 nm to 105 nm. Results of the FTIR divulges the different composition of prepared NZO samples. UV–vis spectrophotometer results reveals that the fabricated 1 at.% NZO thin films annealed at 450 °C were guaranteed to have the lowest absorbance of less than 10 %, while the 0.5 at.% NZO thin films have an energy band gap of roughly 3.08 eV. The obtained results of the prepared films are useful for devices like solar cells, optoelectronic devices, flat panel displays, anticorrosion and surface protection applicant against stainless steel etc.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: Balaprakash Vadivel - Conceptualization, Methodology / Study design, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Visualization, Supervision & Project administration. Thangavel Krishnasamy - Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Visualization & Supervision. Mahitha Mohan - Conceptualization, Methodology / Study design, Software, Validation, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing – original draft. Geetha Appukkutti - Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Visualization & Supervision. Gowrisankar Ponnusamy - Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Visualization & Supervision. Sakthivel Ranganathan - Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft & Supervision.
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Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.
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- Contributions to “Materials for solar water splitting”
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- Impact of annealing temperature on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Ni doped ZnO nanostructured thin films synthesized by sol–gel methodology
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- Efficiency assessment of hydrothermally synthesized Mn2+/3+ modified LaCoO3 nanoparticles for advanced wastewater remediation
- Synthesis of BaO/NiO/rGO nanocomposite for supercapacitor application
- Ethanedithiol-modified silica nanoparticles for selective removal of Hg2+ ions from aqueous wastewater
- Effect of Zr substitution on photocatalytic and magnetic properties of lanthanum titanate
- Investigations on the microbial activity and anti-corrosive efficiency of nickel oxide nanoparticles synthesised through green route
- Multifunctional application of different iron oxide nanoparticles
- Effect of pH in the bismuth vanadate nanorods for their supercapacitor applications
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