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Published on: May 9, 2014
Thin film assembly of nanosized cobalt(II) bis(5-phenyl-azo-8-hydroxyquinolate) using static step-by-step soft
S M Seleim1, Taymour A Hamdalla2, Mohamed E Mahmoud1
1Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department, Alexandria University, P.O. Box 426, Ibrahimia, 21321 Alexandria, Egypt.
Abstract:
Nanosized (NS) cobalt (II) bis(5-phenyl-azo-8-hydroxyquinolate) (NS Co(II)-(5PA-8HQ)2) thin films have been synthesized using static step-by-step soft surface reaction (SS-b-SSR) technique. Structural and optical characterizations of these thin films have been carried out using thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The HR-TEM results revealed that the assembled Co(II)-complex exhibited a uniformly NS structure particles in the form of nanorods with width and length up to 16.90nm and 506.38nm, respectively. The linear and nonlinear optical properties have been investigated. The identified energy gap of the designed thin film materials was found 4.01eV. The refractive index of deposited Co(II)-complex thin film was identified by thickness-dependence and found as 1.9 at wavelength 1100nm. In addition, the refractive index was varied by about 0.15 due to an increase in the thickness by 19nm.
