Synthesis and characterization of Cd-doped ZnO Nanohybrids

Author

Verma, Shruti ; Pandey, Sushil K. ; Mukherjee, Shaibal ; Manna, Manoj K. ; Das, Apurba K.

Author_Institution

Hybrid Nanodevice Res. Group (HNRG), Indian Inst. of Technol., Indore, Indore, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Hybrid inorganic/organic Cd-doped ZnO nanostructures called CZO nanohybrids were electrochemically synthesized on Ga-doped ZnO/Si. The CZO nanohybrids comprise alternating layers of organic surfactant and CZO inorganic phase. These lamellar structured nanohybrids were found to be c-axis oriented, perpendicular to the substrate with good crystallinity. During photoluminescence measurement, a strong orange emission from CZO was observed. The nanohybrids were found to have band gap of 3.3 eV, indicating band gap shrinkage relative to ZnO. The nanohybrids hold great promise for the development of hybrid inorganic/organic light-emitting devices.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; cadmium; electrochemistry; electrodeposition; nanocomposites; nanofabrication; optical constants; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; photoluminescence; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; Ga-doped ZnO-Si substrates; ZnO:Cd; ZnO:Ga-Si; band gap; crystallinity; electrochemical synthesis; hybrid inorganic-organic light-emitting devices; hybrid inorganic-organic nanostructures; lamellar structured nanohybrids; orange emission; photoluminescence; shrinkage; II-VI semiconductor materials; Photoluminescence; Photonic band gap; Silicon; Substrates; X-ray scattering; Zinc oxide; Cd-doped ZnO; band gap; electrodeposition; nanostructures; photoluminescence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6527-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEmElec.2014.7151182

Filename

7151182