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Investigation of structural, optical and photoluminescence properties of the sol–gel synthesized powder ZnS nanoparticles

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Zinc sulphide (ZnS) nanoparticles have been synthesized by using chemical route especially by sol–gel technique and are calcined at different temperatures at 150 °C, 200 °C and 250 °C. The calcined nanoparticles have been analyzed by several analytical and spectroscopic techniques such as, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, optical absorption spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The crystallite sizes of the nanoparticles in the range of 4–8 nm have been obtained from X-ray diffraction analysis. These are also justified by the transmission electron microscopic analysis, and supported by Williamson–Hall (W–H) analysis. From W–H analysis, it is found that the lattice strain is inversely proportional to particle sizes which are increased with calcined temperatures. The optical absorption study revealed that the value of optical band gap has been found to be in the range 3.76–3.13 eV. Photoluminescence spectra revealed that there might have zinc and sulphur vacancies related with green emission spectra around 550 nm wavelength. The results justified the possibility of tailoring the characteristic of zinc sulphide nanoparticles for various technological aspects.

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The authors are very much obliged for getting partial financial assistance from the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India for departmental CAS scheme (no. F. 530/5/CAS/2011(SAP-I)) and from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India under FIST (Fund for Improvement in Science and Technology) programme (Grant no. SR/FST/PS-II-001/2011). The author grateful to Prof. Atis Chandra Mandal, Department of Physics, The University of Burdwan for providing necessary facility to carry out the experiments also he is thankful to Prof. Partha Mitra for allowing the UV-Vis spectrometer to take the requisite data of the experimental sample.

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Mandal, S., Ali, S.I. & Mandal, A.C. Investigation of structural, optical and photoluminescence properties of the sol–gel synthesized powder ZnS nanoparticles. Appl. Phys. A 129, 219 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06499-z

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