Zinc Oxide Lab Report

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X- Ray Studies of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanoparticles grown by Hydrothermal Technique Abstract: In this study Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles was grown by Hydrothermal Technique using the solution of zinc acetate dehydrate (Zn(CH3COO)2.2H2O) (0.1M in 50ml methanol) and Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH). We get the white solid powder from the stock solution by maintaining temperature 180°C for 12 hours into Teflon lined sealed cylindrical flask autoclaves, The crystal structure of the samples and the grain size (D) of the particles was determined from the X-ray Diffraction. Key Words: Zinc Oxide, Hydrothermal, X-ray Diffraction. INTRODUCTION: Zinc Oxide is the one of the most important n-type semiconductor materials with a 3.37 eV band gap at room temperature…show more content…
Particles Chemical purity and stochiometry of the sample were examined using EDS. EDS conform that the developed particles has atomic percentage of 40.76 of Zinc and 59.24 of Oxygen. The elemental constitution of ZnO nanoparticles was also investigated. Two major peaks were found to have weight percentage of 73.77 of Zinc and 26.23 of Oxygen. [14] X-ray Diffraction (XRD) The crystal structure of the samples was investigated by analyzing the XRD data. The X-ray diffraction patterns of hydrothermal synthesized samples were shown in Fig.1. XRD spectra depicts the characteristic peaks corresponding to reflection planes (100), (002), (101), (102), (110), (103), (112) and (201) of wurtzite structure of ZnO. The mean grain size (D) of the particles was determined from the XRD line broadening measurement using Scherrer equation. [5] D= 0.94 λ / (βCosθ) Where, λ is the wavelength (Cu Kα), β is the full width at the half- maximum (FWHM) of the ZnO (101) line θ is the diffraction…show more content…
The crystalline size of the prepared nanoparticles where determine by scherrer’s equation and it was in the range of 28 nm. From the XRD, The diffraction peaks are at 2θ values of 32.00, 34.12, 36.46, 47.64, 56.8, 62.82, 66.76, 68.20, 69.50, 73.08, 77.48 and 82.28 were identified to originate from (100), (002), (101), (102), (110), (103), (200), (112), (201), (004), (202) and (104) planes. Based on the Scherrer equation the average crystallite size of the nanoparticles is observed as 28 nm. The main diffraction peak is observed at 2θ value of 32.00. This peak is identified to originate from (100) planes of the ZnO. All the peaks are indexed and found to be well matched to wurtzite structure of ZnO having hexagonal phase, which is in good agreement with the standard JCPDS Card No 75-

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