The effect of annealing temperature on structural & optical properties of nanocrystalline SNO2 thin films prepared by Sol-Gel technique
In this work, studying the structural and optical Nano crystalline SnO2 thin films grown on cleaned glass substrates by using sol- gel (dip coating) technique. It is worthy to say that the thickness of the deposited film was of the order of (300-400)nm . The films are annealed in air at , 300◦C, 400...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Engineering and Technology Journal 2016-04, Vol.34 (4B), p.490-498 |
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Zusammenfassung: | In this work, studying the structural and optical Nano crystalline SnO2 thin films grown
on cleaned glass substrates by using sol- gel (dip coating) technique. It is worthy to say that the
thickness of the deposited film was of the order of (300-400)nm . The films are annealed in air
at , 300◦C, 400◦C and 500◦C temperatures for 60 minutes. The films that are analyses by X-ray
diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) , atomic force microscopy and optical
absorption spectroscopy technique. The size of crystalline was observed, as well as, so as to
increase with increasing annealing temperature . XRD analysis reveals that the whole films are
polycrystalline with tetragonal structure with preferred orientation of (110),(101),(200) and
(211) . The increase of annealing temperature leads to raise the diffraction peaks and decrease
of FWHM. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
results showed that the average grain size was increase with the increase in annealing
temperature. Spectra of transmittance and absorbance was recorded at wavelengths range (300-
1000)nm .The optical properties showed high transmission at visible regions. The optical band
gap energy was found to be (3.5 , 3.75 , 3,87) eV at annealing temperature (300,400,500 )°C
respectively. |
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ISSN: | 1681-6900 2412-0758 2412-0758 |
DOI: | 10.30684/etj.34.4B.6 |