Nanocrystalline ZnO with ultraviolet luminescence
Y S Wang1, P John Thomas, P O'Brien
1School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|March 3, 2006
Abstract:
Octylamine capped ZnO nanoparticles with mean diameters in the range of 4-14 nm were obtained by thermolysis of single source metal-organic precursors. The nanocrystals were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and UV-visible, luminescence, and excitation spectroscopies. The nanocrystals are sufficiently defect-free to exhibit band edge luminescence. The size dependence of the changes in the band gap have been calculated by different methods and compared with the Kayanuma model.
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