TY - JOUR
T1 - "White" emission of ZnO nanosheets with thermal annealing
AU - Diaz Cano, A. I.
AU - El Filali, B.
AU - Torchynska, T. V.
AU - Casas Espinola, J. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank CONACYT (Project 130387) and SIP-IPN, Mexico , for the financial support, as well as CNMN-IPN for SEM and XRD measurements.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Photoluminescence (PL), its temperature dependence, scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and X ray diffraction (XRD) have been studied in thermal annealed crystalline ZnO nanosheets. ZnO nanosheets were created by the electrochemical (anodization) method using different technological regimes with the typical size of 50 nm x 100 nm. Then ZnO nanosheets were annealed at 400°C for 2 h in ambient air. XRD study has shown that thermal annealing stimulated the Zn oxidation and ZnO crystallization with the creation of wurzite ZnO crystal lattice. The oxidation and crystallization processes in ZnO nanosheets are accompanied by the intensity increasing a set of PL bands with the peaks at 1.58, 1.98, 2.55, 2.94, 3.06 and 3.18 eV at 10 K. The reasons of emission transformation and the nature of optical transitions related to the studied PL bands have been discussed. It is shown that by the controllable way it is possible to obtain the wide spectral range for ZnO emission that is interesting for the room temperature "white" light-emitting diodes.
AB - Photoluminescence (PL), its temperature dependence, scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and X ray diffraction (XRD) have been studied in thermal annealed crystalline ZnO nanosheets. ZnO nanosheets were created by the electrochemical (anodization) method using different technological regimes with the typical size of 50 nm x 100 nm. Then ZnO nanosheets were annealed at 400°C for 2 h in ambient air. XRD study has shown that thermal annealing stimulated the Zn oxidation and ZnO crystallization with the creation of wurzite ZnO crystal lattice. The oxidation and crystallization processes in ZnO nanosheets are accompanied by the intensity increasing a set of PL bands with the peaks at 1.58, 1.98, 2.55, 2.94, 3.06 and 3.18 eV at 10 K. The reasons of emission transformation and the nature of optical transitions related to the studied PL bands have been discussed. It is shown that by the controllable way it is possible to obtain the wide spectral range for ZnO emission that is interesting for the room temperature "white" light-emitting diodes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physe.2013.01.017
DO - 10.1016/j.physe.2013.01.017
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1386-9477
VL - 51
SP - 24
EP - 28
JO - Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
JF - Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
ER -