Authors: Rayees Ahmad Zargar Santosh Chackrabarti Md Shahabuddin Jitendra Kumar Manju Arora Aurangzeb Khurram Hafiz
Publish Date: 2015/08/30
Volume: 26, Issue: 12, Pages: 10027-10033
Abstract
The pure and cadmium doped zinc oxide Cd–ZnO thick films were deposited on glass substrates by screen printing method from their nanopowders followed by sintering at 550 °C to obtain desired stoichiometry and better adherence of films The structural morphological optical and electrical properties of the samples were studied by Xray diffraction XRD scanning electron microscopy SEM with UV–visible spectroscopy Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy photoluminescence PL and two probe techniques XRD patterns confirm hexagonal wurtzite structure with single phase of all the samples and SEM micrographs reveal granular grains and porosity in films The incorporation of cadmium in ZnO lattice is confirmed by IR transmission and Raman spectrum The E2 high phonon and multiphoton modes are observed at 433 and 1136 cm−1 respectively in Raman spectra The recombination of free and neutral bound excitons near band edge emission are observed in PL spectra UV–visible measurement confirms the direct band gap that decrease from 327 to 318 eV and resistivity measurement shows semiconducting nature of the films with decreasing activation energy from 031 to 026 eV respectively on increasing Cd2+ content due to increase in lattice parameters on doping bigger Cd2+ ions at Zn sites in ZnO
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