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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 257, Issue 22, Pages 9515-9518Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.06.048
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CdS; Nanoparticles; Transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi
- C.S.I.R., New Delhi
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Undoped and Cr (2 and 4 at.%) doped CdS nanoparticles were synthesized in aqueous solution by simple chemical co-precipitation method using polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as stabilizer. The prepared nanoparticles were examined using X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). XRD pattern of the nanoparticles showed cubic zincblende phase with the particle size of the order of 3-4 nm, which was in good agreement with the results obtained from TEM studies. The EDAX analysis confirmed that Cd, Cr and S elements were present in the samples and the variations between the target and actual compositions were microscopic. UV-vis DRS spectra of the samples exhibited decrease in the band gap which further attests the incorporation of Cr into CdS nanoparticles. FTIR studies revealed that the undoped as well as Cr doped CdS nanoparticles were capped by polyvinylpyrrolidone. (C) 2011 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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