UV-VIS spectroscopic study of one pot synthesized strontium oxide quantum dots

The properties of drastically change when matter makes transition from 1D, 2D, 3D, to 0D. The quantum dots (QDs) of strontium oxide (SrO) were synthesized by one pot chemical precipitation method using hexamethylenetetramine (HMT). The radius of SrO QDs was calculated from hyperbolic band model (HBM). The direct and indirect band gaps of SrO QDs were estimated from UV-VIS analysis. The particle size was found to be 2.48 nm. The quantum confinement effect in SrO QDs is discussed through exciton Bohr radius. The particle size from UV-VIS analysis is in excellent agreement with fluorescence and TEM. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.