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Pure and Cu-Doped ZnO Nanoparticles: Hydrothermal Synthesis, Structural, and Optical Properties

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Pure and Cu-doped zinc oxide (Zn1 –xCuxO with x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15) nanoparticles were prepared via hydrothermal synthesis using a solution of zinc sulfate (ZnSO4) as precursor, p-phenylenediamine as structure-directing agent in the presence of different amounts of CuSO4 and NaOH. XRD, Raman, UV–Vis, and PL techniques were used to characterize the as-synthesized samples. The XRD analysis reveals that the average particle size of pure ZnO is 13.50 nm. It decreased to 12.11 nm for the Cu-doped sample Zn0.95Cu0.05O, then to 11.00 nm when x = 0.15 (Zn0.85Cu0.15O). The optical band gap of pure and Cu-doped ZnO nanoparticles was calculated from UV–Vis spectra. It turned out to have decreased from 3.18  to 3.11  eV as the amount of Cu increases up from x = 0 to 0.15. The photoluminescence study shows that the introduction of Cu into pure ZnO causes a decrease in surface defects, such as oxygen vacancy and zinc vacancy.

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We thank Mr. Tarek Fezai, who linguistically revised and edited the whole paper.

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  1. Unité de Recherche de Matériaux et Environnement (UR15ES01), IPEIT, Université de Tunis, 2 Rue Jawaher Lel Nehru, 1089, Montfleury, Tunisia

    L. Ben Saad, L. Soltane & F. Sediri

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Ben Saad, L., Soltane, L. & Sediri, F. Pure and Cu-Doped ZnO Nanoparticles: Hydrothermal Synthesis, Structural, and Optical Properties. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 93, 2782–2788 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024419130259

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