Synthesis and characterization of Zinc Oxide nanorods

Author

Ramachandran, D. ; Brijitta, J. ; Raj, N. Nixon ; Jayanthi, V. ; Rabel, A.M.

Author_Institution

Centre for Nanosci. & Nanotechnol., Sathyabama Univ., Chennai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 July 2013

Firstpage

566

Lastpage

568

Abstract

In this paper we report a simple and versatile wet chemical route to synthesize bulk amounts of high quality Zinc Oxide nanorods. The purified nanorods have been characterized for its size and shape using FESEM, optical properties using UV-Visible spectrophotometer and crystal structure using XRD. The length and width of the nanorods are 311 ± 68 nm, 39 ± 10 nm respectively. The UV-Visible absorption spectrum shows an absorption peak at 370 nm due to Zinc Oxide nanorods. XRD analysis revealed hexagonal Wurtzite structure of the Zinc Oxide nanorods with crystallite size being 29.3 nm.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; X-ray diffraction; crystallites; field emission electron microscopy; nanofabrication; nanorods; scanning electron microscopy; semiconductor growth; ultraviolet spectra; visible spectra; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; FESEM; UV-visible absorption spectrum; UV-visible spectrophotometer; XRD analysis; ZnO; absorption peak; crystal structure; crystallite size; hexagonal wurtzite structure; nanorod length; nanorod shape; nanorod size; nanorod width; optical properties; purified nanorod characterization; versatile wet chemical route; wavelength 370 nm; zinc oxide nanorod synthesis; Absorption; Chemicals; Educational institutions; X-ray diffraction; X-ray scattering; Zinc oxide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Nanomaterials and Emerging Engineering Technologies (ICANMEET), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1377-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICANMEET.2013.6609366

Filename

6609366