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CHINESE PHYSICS B
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/12/126104
Keywords
SnO2 nanoparticles; Zn-Cu codoping; optical band gap energy; ferromagnetism
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- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China [LR16F040001]
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Zn-Cu-codoped SnO2 nanoparticles have been synthesized by chemical precipitation method. All nanoparticles are crystalline, with the average size increases from 2.55 nm to 4.13 nm as the calcination temperature increases from 400 degrees C to 600 degrees C. The high calcination temperature can enhance the crystalline quality and grain growth. The oxygen content decreases with decreasing calcination temperature; at a low temperature of 400 degrees C, Zn-Cu-codoped SnO2 nanoparticles are in a rather oxygen-poor state having many oxygen vacancies. The optical band gap energies of Zn-Cu-codoped SnO2 nanoparticles calcined at 400 degrees C and 600 degrees C are decreased from 3.93 eV to 3.62 eV due to quantum confinement effects. Both samples exhibit room-temperature ferromagnetism, with a larger saturation magnetization at 400 degrees C due to the presence of large density of defects such as oxygen vacancies. Zn-Cu-codoped SnO2 nanoparticles exhibit large optical band gap energies and room temperature ferromagnetism, which make them potential candidates for applications in optoelectronics and spintronics.
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