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Morphological, Optical, and Crystalline Analysis of ZnTiO3 Nanostructures Deposited on Porous Silicon Substrate

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Zinc titanate (ZnTiO3) was grown on silicon and porous silicon. ZnTiO3 layers were prepared by sol-gel method. Porous silicon was fabricated by electrochemical etching of silicon in HF solution. The effect of substrate porosity on morphology, structure and otpical properties of ZnTiO3 nanostructures has been studied. Theses properties were investigated using XRD, Ultraviolet–Visible spectroscopy, and HRTEM. Some important parameters (absorption, reflectivity (R (%) and grain size) were studied. It was found that the Structural, morphology and optical properties of ZnTiO3 layers are dependent strongly on the type of substrates. The crystalline size decreased for ZnTiO3 layers deposited on PS substrate. The average grain size is about 80 nm for ZnTiO3 grown on porous silicon. The surface morphology of films was also found to be uniform and homogeneous. ZnTiO3-PS shows enhancing photon absorption compared to ZnTiO3-Si.

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    Marouan Khalifa, Hammedi Khadija & Hatem Ezzaouia

  2. Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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  3. Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Mineral Materials and their Applications, National Center for Research in Materials Sciences, Borj Cedria Technopark, BP 73, 8027, Soliman, Tunisia

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Khalifa, M., Khadija, H., Bouzidi, C. et al. Morphological, Optical, and Crystalline Analysis of ZnTiO3 Nanostructures Deposited on Porous Silicon Substrate. Silicon 15, 2745–2752 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-022-02219-z

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