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MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/ab5a1d
Keywords
zinc oxide; nanoparticles; optoelectronics; photocatalytic activity
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- 2018 Research Supporting Program through the Hwasung Scholarship& Culture Foundation
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Research on semiconductors toward conventional electronic devices is limited owing to availability of more features in spin-based electronic devices, called spintronics. To provide optimal materials for spintronics, we studied the effect of Ce doping concentration on the crystalline, morphological, magnetic, and photocatalytic characteristics of ZnO nanoparticles. The particles were analyzed using x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and with a vibrating sample magnetometer. In addition, we studied the degradation of methyl orange organic dye molecules. The wurtzite structure of the prepared nanoparticles and incorporation of dopant ions into the host lattice were confirmed by structural analysis. XPS results suggested that Ce ions were incorporated into the ZnO host lattice with +3 and +4 combined oxidization states and indicated the presence of oxygen vacancies. Room temperature magnetic hysteresis curves revealed that the Zn0.48Ce0.02O50 and Zn0.46Ce0.04O50 nanoparticles are superparamagnetic. Photocatalytic measurements confirmed that the synthesized nanoparticles of ZnO, Zn0.48Ce0.02O50 , and Zn(0)(.)(46)Ce(0)(.)(04)O(50)exhibit better degradation efficiencies through the decomposition of methyl orange molecules in aqueous media.
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