Effect of increasing Fe-concentrations on ZnO thin film deposited by sol-gel spin coater. | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Chemistry | ||||
| Volume 65, Issue 132, December 2022, Page 949-957 PDF (885.57 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2022.155702.6724 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Nora Y. Elsheikh1; Inas K. Battisha  2; Ahmed Abo Arais1; M.S. Shams1
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| 1Menoufia University, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Physics and Mathematical Engineering Department, 32952 Menouf, Egypt. | ||||
| 2National Research Centre, Solid state physics department, Physics Research Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt, Affiliation ID: 60014618 | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| To produce transparent thin films of undoped and Fe-loaded zinc oxide (ZnO) referred to as ZTF, Z (15-30 %F), the current study utilizes a modified sol-gel spin coating method (Zn-Fe). Both undoped and Fe-loaded ZnO thin films were annealed at 5000C for 2 hours. The morphologies and the structural characteristics of pure and doped ZnO thin films were studied. The structure of the resulting films was investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra, revealing good crystal quality and a pure hexagonal wurtzite ZnO structure free of Fe-associated phases. The crystallite size of undoped ZnO thin film is 10.47 nm, and it decreases when the Fe content is increased to 25 mol. %, then it returns to increase at 30 mol. %, giving the following values 10.37, 9.66, 8.26, and 15.59 nm, respectively. Plane images were taken with a field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) revealing spherical particles and smooth surface shapes in the ZnO thin film, whilst Fe-loaded ZnO films have a uniform and compact morphology. The Laser-based Raman micro-spectroscopy presents the homogenous distribution of the iron oxide. The optical properties of thin films, such as transmittance (T %) and the absorption coefficient obtained from the absorbance spectrum were determined using UV/vis spectroscopy. The T% of ZTF film exhibited an average value of nearly 97% and reduced when the Fe concentrations were increased. ZTF, Z15FTF, Z20FTF, Z25FTF, and Z30FTF have energy band gaps of 3.138, 3.234, 3.240, 3.242, 2.936eV, respectively. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Sol – Gel; Thin film; ZnO; iron; 3-D laser Raman | ||||
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