Structural and optical properties of a NaCl single crystal doped with CuO nanocrystals

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/9/098103

Abstract A cupric oxide (CuO) nanocrystal-doped NaCl single crystal and a pure NaCl single crystal are grown by using the Czochralski (Cz) method. A number of techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, optical absorption in the UV-visible range, and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy are used to characterize the obtained NaCl and NaCl:CuO crystals. It is observed that the average radius of CuO crystallites in NaCl:CuO crystal is about 29.87 nm, as derived from the XRD data analysis. Moreover, FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy results confirm the existence of the monoclinic CuO phase in NaCl crystal. UV-visible absorption measurements indicate that the band gap of the NaCl:CuO crystal is 434 nm (2.85 eV), and it shows a significant amount of blue-shift (ΔE_g=1 eV ) in the band gap energy of CuO, which is due to the quantum confinement effect exerted by the CuO nanocrystals. The PL spectrum of the NaCl:CuO shows a broad emission band centred at around 438 nm, which is consistent with the absorption measurement.

Keywords: NaCl single crystal CuO nanocrystals Raman spectroscopy photoluminescence

Received: 22 July 2012
Revised: 04 March 2013
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PACS:

81.10.-h

(Methods of crystal growth; physics and chemistry of crystal growth, crystal morphology, and orientation)

Fund: Project supported by the Crystallography Laboratory of the University of Constantine, Algeria.

Corresponding Authors: L. Bouhdjer
E-mail: bouhdjerlazhar@gmail.com

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S. Addala, L. Bouhdjer, A. Chala, A. Bouhdjar, O. Halimi, B. Boudine, M. Sebais Structural and optical properties of a NaCl single crystal doped with CuO nanocrystals 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 098103

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