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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 293-297Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-007-0738-4
Keywords
nanowires; lead titanate (PbTiO3); hydrothermal; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
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Single crystalline nanowires of lead titanate (PbTiO3) were fabricated by hydrothermal method at 200 degrees C using lead acetate and n-tetrabutyl titanate as starting materials, where sodium hydroxide was served as a mineralizer. Crystalline phases, microstructure and optical properties of PbTiO3 nanowires were investigated. The PbTiO3 nanowires were uniform and continuous along the long axis, and were composed of single crystalline PbTiO3 with a tetragonal perovskite structure. The diameter of a single nanowire was around 12 nm and the length reached up to 3 mu m. The chemical composition of the samples and the valence states of elements were determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The ultraviolet/visible absorption spectroscopic investigation suggested that the absorption edge of optical transition of the first excitonic state occurred at around 320 nm. A blue-green light emission peaking at about 471 nm (2.63 eV) is observed at room temperature, and the intensity of this emission increased with increasing excitation wavelength. Oxygen vacancies are responsible for the light emission of PbTiO3 nanowires.
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