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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 126, Issue 2, Pages 800-806Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2006.12.003
Keywords
zinc oxide; thin films; sol-gel; photoluminescence; absorption; Stokes shift
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Highly c-axis-oriented ZnO films were obtained on corning glass substrate by sol-gel technique. The characteristics of photoluminescence (PL) of ZnO, as well as the exciton absorption in the absorption (UV) spectra are closely related to the post-annealing treatment. The difference between PL peak position and the absorption edge, designated as Stokes shift, is found to decrease with the increase of annealing temperature. The minimum Stokes shift is about 150 meV. The decrease of Stokes shift is attributed to the decrease in carrier concentration in ZnO film with annealing. X-ray diffraction, surface morphology and refractive index results indicate an improvement in crystalline quality with annealing. Annealed films also exhibit a green emission centered at similar to 520 nm with activation energy of 0.89 eV. The green emission is attributed to the electron transition from the bottom of the conduction band to the antisite oxygen O-Zn defect levels. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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