Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano10071326
Keywords
femtosecond ablation; Mg-doped ZnO; nanoparticles synthesis; UV-emission; cathodoluminescence
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India
- Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India
- Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
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The need for improved UV emitting luminescent materials underscored by applications in optical communications, sterilization and medical technologies is often addressed by wide bandgap semiconducting oxides. Among these, the Mg-doped ZnO system is of particular interest as it offers the opportunity to tune the UV emission by engineering its bandgap via doping control. However, both the doped system and its pristine congener, ZnO, suffer from being highly prone to parasitic defect level emissions, compromising their efficiency as light emitters in the ultraviolet region. Here, employing the process of femtosecond pulsed laser ablation in a liquid (fs-PLAL), we demonstrate the systematic control of enhanced UV-only emission in Mg-doped ZnO nanoparticles using both photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence spectroscopies. The ratio of luminescence intensities corresponding to near band edge emission to defect level emission was found to be six-times higher in Mg-doped ZnO nanoparticles as compared to pristine ZnO. Insights from UV-visible absorption and Raman analysis also reaffirm this defect suppression. This work provides a simple and effective single-step methodology to achieve UV-emission and mitigation of defect emissions in the Mg-doped ZnO system. This is a significant step forward in its deployment for UV emitting optoelectronic devices.
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