Eu-doped Zinc Oxide nanoparticles, with wurtzite hexagonal phase have been successfully synthesized via simple sol-gel method. Crystallinity, morphologies and optical properties of the as-prepared nanoparticles were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Atomic Force microscopy (AFM) and photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL). XRD results indicated that trivalent europium ions were successfully doped in to the crystal lattice of ZnO matrix with ~13 nm average crystallite size. X-ray peak broadening analysis was used to evaluate the average crystallite size and lattice strain by the Williamson-Hall (W-H) method. Photoluminescence spectroscopic results indicated that the emission peak located at ~610 nm was attributed to the 4f-4f intra-shell transition of 5D0^7F2 incorporated in to wurtzite ZnO host by substitution on the Zn sub lattice.
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Pandey, P., Parra, M. R., Kurchania, R., & Haque, F. Z. (2014). Synthesis and Optical Properties of Pure and Eu+3 Ion Doped ZnO Nanoparticles Prepared Via Sol-Gel Method. In Environmental Science and Engineering (pp. 599–600). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03002-9_151
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