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Front Optoelec Chin    2011, Vol. 4 Issue (2) : 130-136    https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-011-0168-3
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Substrate effect on morphology and photoluminescence from ZnO monopods and bipods
Pijus Kanti SAMANTA1(), Partha Roy CHAUDHURI2
1. Department of Physics, Rabindra Satabarsiki Mahavidyalaya, Ghatal-721212, West Bengal, India; 2. Department of Physics & Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Abstract

A simple wet chemical bath deposition has been successfully deployed to fabricate zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures. For substrate free growth, the nanostructure is spindle like monopods. But when the nanostructures grow on the glass and quartz substrates, they are bipods (two monopods joined together base to base). Variation in the size of the spindles of the monopods and bipods and the particle size was observed due to the strain exists in the thin film due to lattice mismatch at the interface of the thin film and the substrates. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) and selected area diffraction results confirmed the hexagonal unit cell structures of the monopods and bipods. Also the growth rates of various planes are different and the growth is anisotropic. The substrate free grown monopods show visible photoluminescence (PL) at 421 nm. But the emission gets shifted by 3 and 6 nm for ZnO thin film deposited on quartz and glass substrates respectively due to interfacial strain. In case of ZnO on quartz substrate a strong ultra-violet (UV) peak was observed at 386 nm due to band edge transition. These emissions are also accompanied by few weaker emission peaks due to various defect related transition.
Keywords monopods      bipods      particle-size      strain      photoluminescence (PL)      recombination     
Corresponding Author(s): SAMANTA Pijus Kanti,Email:pijush.samanta@gmail.com   
Issue Date: 05 June 2011
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Pijus Kanti SAMANTA,Partha Roy CHAUDHURI. Substrate effect on morphology and photoluminescence from ZnO monopods and bipods[J]. Front Optoelec Chin, 2011, 4(2): 130-136.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foe/EN/Y2011/V4/I2/130
Fig.1  XRD pattern of ZnO monopods grown without any substrate
Fig.1  XRD pattern of ZnO monopods grown without any substrate
Fig.2  XRD pattern of ZnO bipods grown on glass
Fig.2  XRD pattern of ZnO bipods grown on glass
Fig.3  XRD pattern of ZnO monopods grown on quartz
Fig.3  XRD pattern of ZnO monopods grown on quartz
Fig.4  Variation of strain with particle size
Fig.4  Variation of strain with particle size
substratesFWHM2θ/(°)particle size/nmstrain
no substrate0.2169536.31380.1654
glass0.2320236.23350.1773
quartz0.2460536.25330.1868
Tab.1  Data for particle size and strain for different substrates
Fig.5  FESEM images of prism-like monopods grown without any substrate taken in two different positions
Fig.5  FESEM images of prism-like monopods grown without any substrate taken in two different positions
Fig.6  FESEM images of bipods grown on (a) glass and (b) quartz substrate
Fig.6  FESEM images of bipods grown on (a) glass and (b) quartz substrate
Fig.7  Hexagonal crystal structure of ZnO
Fig.7  Hexagonal crystal structure of ZnO
Fig.8  Schematic of growth of monopods and bipods
Fig.8  Schematic of growth of monopods and bipods
Fig.9  (a) and (b) TEM images of bipods grown on glass substrate; (c) selected area election diffraction SAED pattern of bipods
Fig.9  (a) and (b) TEM images of bipods grown on glass substrate; (c) selected area election diffraction SAED pattern of bipods
Fig.10  Room temperature photoluminescence of ZnO monopods and bipods grown on glass and quartz
Fig.10  Room temperature photoluminescence of ZnO monopods and bipods grown on glass and quartz
Fig.11  Eenergy levels of various defect states of ZnO []
Fig.11  Eenergy levels of various defect states of ZnO []
no substrateglassquartzorigin of emission
PL emission peaks----386band edge emission
421415418recombination bet Zni and hole in VB
486484486zinc vacancy (VZn+)
530530530singly ionised oxygen vacancy
Tab.2  Various PL emission peaks and their origins
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