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Photoluminescent and magnetic characteristics of cobalt and manganese doped nanoscale zinc oxide

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In the present work, we investigated the magneto-optic properties of pure, cobalt-doped, and manganese-doped ZnO nanoparticles. Both pure and doped ZnO nanoparticles are prepared using the co-precipitation method. Examination of X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns confirms the effective substitution of dopants ions (Co2+ and Mn2+) into ZnO hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure. The calculated microstrain and crystallite size values suggest lattice expansion and reduction of particle size to the nano range respectively. Further, a change in the morphology from rounded to the slightly elongated shape of the ZnO nanoparticles was observed with the doping. The absorption spectra showed a minor shift in the optical band gap value from 3.21 to 3.17 eV with doping in the ZnO. Further, the emission spectra of pure ZnO nanoparticles showed strong green emission with color coordinates (0.28, 0.40), and (0.30, 0.40) corresponding to emission wavelengths of 513.14 nm and 592.55 nm respectively. However, this emission gets drastically quenched by Co2+ and Mn2+ ions doping in ZnO. The magnetic properties investigated using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer exhibited a magnetic behavior change from diamagnetic to ferromagnetic for pure ZnO and doped ZnO nanoparticles respectively. Our study predicts that both cobalt and manganese doping in ZnO change the magnetic behavior of pure ZnO nanoparticles from diamagnetic to ferromagnetic but the emission properties of the pure ZnO also get quenched simultaneously.

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This project is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India. The authors also acknowledge the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India for helping out with SQUID measurements.

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IC: Experiments, original draft writing, conceptualization, validation, and supervision. RS: Characterization, investigations, review, and editing. SM: Characterization, review, and editing. RM: Methodology, and editing. RD: Data curation, and editing. KR: Experiments. S: Experiments. SS: Experiments.

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Choudhary, I., Sehrawat, R., Mehta, S. et al. Photoluminescent and magnetic characteristics of cobalt and manganese doped nanoscale zinc oxide. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 1505 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10898-6

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