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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 525-530Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2011.01.002
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Nanostructures; Semiconductors; Chemical synthesis; Electron microscopy; Optical properties
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [R01-2007-000-11177-0]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [R01-2007-000-11177-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The presence of the complexing agents in the growth solution poses risk of the unintentional doping in the synthesized product and hence is likely to adversely affect the intrinsic properties. Herein we report the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles with porous microstructure using pure aqueous precursor. Crystalline ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by thermal treatment of aqueous solution of zinc acetate in an open bath. The size of the nanocrystals was controlled by changing the initial precursor concentration. The structural and optical properties of the synthesized nanocrystals were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, UV-vis absorption and room temperature photoluminescence measurement techniques. The TEM and UV-vis spectral signature analyses confirmed the formation of dispersed single crystalline ZnO nanoparticles. The nanopowders were found to have disordered mesoporous structure. The synthesized nanocrystals exhibited characteristic band edge emission as well as to surface defect related deep level visible luminescence. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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