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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 581, Issue -, Pages 805-811Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.07.191
Keywords
Co-precipitation technique; X-ray diffraction; Optical band gap; FTIR spectroscopy; EDS
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- UGC, New Delhi
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Cd0.8Zn0.2S semiconductor powders doped with different amounts of sodium have been synthesized by controlled co-precipitation technique. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Optical absorption and Fourier transform infrared spectroscope (FTIR) studies have been done on all these samples. XRD studies have revealed that the samples are polycrystalline with an average crystallite size ranging from 29 to 55 nm and they crystallize in the hexagonal form with wurtzite structure. The optical measurements revealed that the samples possess direct band gap and the band gap increases with an increase in the dopant concentration. The vibrational modes of Cd-S and Zn-S were obtained from FTIR studies and found to be at 812-618 cm(-1) respectively. Experimental and theoretical (XRD) densities were calculated and analyzed. Density from XRD and porosity in percentage varied from 92% to 94% and 5% to 8% respectively. The elemental analysis of the compounds was done by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and found that the cadmium, zinc, sulphur and sodium elements were present in the compound as per the composition taken. From the theoretical estimations it is understood that the dopant (Na) occupies the interstitial of CdZnS. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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