Solution-processed nanostructured ZnO/CuO composite films and improvement its physical properties by lustrous transition
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Solution‑processed nanostructured ZnO/CuO composite films and improvement its physical properties by lustrous transition metal silver doping A. Akkaya1 · B. Şahin2 · R. Aydın3 · H. Çetin4 · E. Ayyıldız5 Received: 13 May 2020 / Accepted: 12 July 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This paper has reported the fabrication and characterization of pristine, and silver (Ag)-doped nanostructured ZnO/CuO composite thin films that have not been previously reported. The thin films were synthesized by the successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) technique. The morphological, crystalline structure, optical and electrical characterizations of the films have been achieved utilizing scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, Fourier transform ınfrared spectrum (FTIR) analysis, ultraviolet– visible (UV–Vis) spectrophotometry and the four-point probe measurements. Particle sizes of pristine and Ag-doped ZnO/ CuO thin films were found to vary from 32 to 58 nm. Crystallite size was changed from 16.40 to 18.90 nm with changing Ag dopant in the ZnO/CuO composite film. FTIR spectra that have the absorption peaks at ~ 725 and ~ 510 cm−1 referred to the stretching vibration of Zn–O and Cu–O bonds during the synthesis of ZnO/CuO nanofilms. The bandgap values of ZnO/ CuO composite films increased from 2.05 to 2.36 eV as Ag content increased from 0 to 2 M%. The activation energies of the samples were obtained from the Arrhenius plots of 𝜎 versus 1/T. The multiple activation process was observed. It was noteworthy that Ag-doping results in a significant difference in conductivity at all temperature values.
1 Introduction Nowadays, many researchers focus on the synthesis and examination of composite multicomponent nanostructured metal-oxide materials. Nanostructured metal-oxide based heterostructures are more prepossessing because of the easy availability, non-toxic character, likelihood of integrating the main chemical and physical properties and chemical and * A. Akkaya abdullah.akkaya@ahievran.edu.tr 1
Mucur Technical Vocational Schools, Tech.Prog. Department, Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey
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Laboratory of Nanostructured Materials and Applications, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
biological stability [1, 2]. Diverse nanostructured composite materials have been presented, including Graphene/ZnO [3], TiO2/CdS [4], ZnO/CuO [5], ZnO/CdO [6], SnO2/ZnO [7], ZnO/Co3O4 [8], ZnO/Fe2O3 [9], NiO/ZnO [10], and Gd2ZnMnO6/ZnO [11]. Among these nanostructured composite materials, ZnO/ CuO thin films much attractive owing to their unique and superior properties such as environme
