Structural, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Zn1-CoO Nanoparticles
P Shunmuga Sundaram1, G Arivazhagan2, S S R Inbanathan3
1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mary Matha College of Arts & Science, Periyakulam 625604, Tamilnadu, India.
Abstract:
Zn1-CoO nanoparticles with three different values of 'x' (x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15) were prepared by chemical co-precipitation process without any further heat treatment. The X-ray diffraction studies confirmed the wurtzite hexagonal crystal structure for synthesized Zn1-CoO nanoparticles. The dislocation density results reveal that there is an increase in the concentration of lattice imperfections with increasing the concentration of Co ions. The true values of lattice constants were calculated by using Nelson-Riley Function (NRF). Further, the average bond length (BL) were also calculated and presented. The optical and magnetic properties of Zn1-CoO nanoparticles were examined by room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), respectively. The calculated values of magnetic susceptibility for Zn1-CoO nanoparticles with x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 were found to be 9.883×10-4, 2.29×10-2 and 2.37×10-2, respectively.
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