Abstract
A simple wet chemical method has been successfully deployed to fabricate hexagonal zinc oxide nanorods. The structural characteristics were investigated through X-ray diffraction. The crystal unit cell of the nanorods was found to be hexagonal. The morphology of the nanostructures was studied using field emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The nanorods are hexagonal in shape. The Zn–O bond formation was confirmed through Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopic analysis. Raman shift measurements revealed various vibrational modes present in the ZnO crystal. The photoluminescence spectrum shows shallow deep level visible emission due to various defect states. Thus, our investigation will be very helpful in the development of ZnO based light emitting/optoelectronic device applications.
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Introduction
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a very well known II–IV semiconductor having interesting unique properties that lead to its applications in sensors, optoelectronic, and nanoelectronic devices (Wang et al. 2006; Song et al. 2010; Umar et al. 2009a, b; Rout et al. 2009). Due to its wide band gap of 3.37 eV and large exciton binding energy of 60 meV (Wang et al. 2009a), it exhibits stable UV emission (Duan et al. 2006). Researchers reported that visible emission from the ZnO nanostructures originates because of the existence of various defects (Zn interstitial, Zn vacancy, and oxygen vacancy) in the ZnO nanocrystal (Nian et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2009b; Patra et al. 2009). These emissions make ZnO, a very interesting material for various optoelectronic applications. ZnO is now being used as UV absorbing material in sunscreens (Schilling et al. 2010), transparent conductors in solar cells (Lloyd et al. 2009), and nano-lasers (Zhang et al. 2009). Recently Wang (2008) has successfully demonstrated energy generation from arrayed ZnO nanorods using the piezo-electric property exhibited by this material. In addition to these optoelectronic and nanoelectronic device applications, ZnO is also being used in spintronic applications. Existence of ferromagnetism in ZnO was already shown by Iqbal et al. (2009). The idea of this ferromagnetism is now being used in magnetic non-volatile data storage for longer periods of time. Thus, ZnO offers us a possibility to combine the optical and magnetic property in various advanced devices like spin light-emitting-diodes, spin-polarized solar cells, and magneto-optical switching.
In this paper, we report the fabrication of hexagonal ZnO nanorods by a simple and cost-effective wet chemical method. Moreover, it offers us repeated fabrication of pure ZnO. The fabrication is followed by few typical characterization results that are very interesting and useful in ZnO base optoelectronic and nanoelectronic device applications.
Experimental
Material preparation
The chemicals used in the fabrication of ZnO nanorods, were of analytical grade and was used as supplied (MERCK) without further purification. 14.87 g of zinc nitrate hexahydrate (Zn(NO3)2·6H2O) was dissolved in deionized water to prepare 100 ml solution of concentration 0.5 M. 4 g of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) was dissolved in deionized water to prepare 100 ml NaOH solution of concentration 1 M. This NaOH solution was then put under vigorous stirring at room temperature (34°C) in a conical flask using a magnetic stirrer (SPINOT make). The previously prepared zinc nitrate solution of 0.5 M was added drop-wise to the NaOH solution for 15 min. The mechanical stirring was continued for 2 h. The pH of the solution was 11. A white precipitate was deposited at the bottom of the flask. The precipitate was then filtered and washed 2–3 times with distilled water. Then the powdered sample was dried and annealed at different temperatures (200, 400, and 800°C) in a furnace for further characterizations.
Material characterization
The X-ray diffraction (XRD) data were collected in a RIGAKU diffractometer using Cu Kα-radiation over an angular range 30° < 2θ < 60° by an ionization chamber. The morphology of the samples were observed using ZEISS SUPRA-40 field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) operating at 5 kV accelerating voltage and the working distance between the samples and the detector was ~1.5 cm. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was carried out in a JEOL JEM-2100F microscope with the accelerating voltage of 200 kV. For TEM study, a very small amount of the powder sample was first dispersed in acetone by ultrasonication. A drop of that solution was taken on a carbon coated grid and dried in vacuum for TEM imaging. Fourier transformed infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR) was carried out in NEXUS-870 FT-IR spectrometer. Reinshaw Raman system: RM-1000B (coupled with LEICA microscope DMLM) was deployed to carry out the Raman shift measurement of the ZnO nanorods. As the excitation source, a 20 mW Argon ion laser was used which was operated at 514 nm wavelength using an edge filter of 200 cm−1 as cut-off. The optical emission characteristic of the ZnO nanorods was analysed by recording the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum at room temperature using PERKIN ELMER LS-55 luminescence spectrometer with a xenon lamp at the excitation of 325 nm.
Results and discussions
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
A typical XRD pattern of the ZnO nanorods annealed at 400°C is shown in Fig. 1. The unit cell of the crystal was found to be hexagonal with the presence of the peaks (100), (002), (101), (102), and (110). It is well agreed with the standard JCPDS card no. 36-1451. Furthermore, the intensities of different diffraction peaks are different, which indicates that the growth of various planes (direction) is different and that the growth is anisotropic. The crystallite size was calculated using the well known Scherer formula (Samanta and Chaudhuri 2011): \( R_{\text{hkl}} = \frac{0.89\lambda }{\beta \cos \theta }. \) In this calculation, the highest intensity (101) peak was analysed and considered it to be Gaussian. The crystallite size was found to be 43 nm. Besides, no impurity peaks were detected which indicates that the fabricated ZnO nanomaterials is highly pure.
Growth and morphology of the nanostructures
Typical FESEM image of the as prepared ZnO nanorods is shown in Fig. 2a. Rod-like nanostructures were clearly observed. The nanorods are randomly distributed in the powdered sample. The length of the nanorods is ~400 nm and diameter is ~100 nm. Growth of various ZnO nanostructures from aqueous solution (containing Zn(OH) 2−4 ) has been reported by many researchers. However, the growth process and mechanism of the formation of ZnO from Zn(OH) 2−4 is not yet well understood. The reported mechanism of formation of ZnO by researchers (Li et al. 2007; Kale et al. 2007; Hu et al. 2007; Quang et al. 2005; Shan et al. 2004; Zhang et al. 2002; Wu et al. 2006; Samanta et al. 2009a) is as follows:
We depict the formation mechanism of ZnO nanorods in two steps: nucleation and growth. At the initial step of the reaction between Zn(OH3)2 and NaOH, Zn(OH)2 precipitates. Now as more NaOH is added to the solution, the precipitated Zn(OH)2 dissolves and forms a homogeneous aqueous solution that contains enough Zn(OH) 2−4 ions. At the onset of supersaturation and dehydration of Zn(OH) 2−4 ZnO nuclei are formed. It is also supposed that during this process, Zn(OH) 2−4 ions act as the growth unit of ZnO and directly incorporated into ZnO crystallites. These nuclei grow further to produce rod-like ZnO. However, there are also some other equilibrium processes (ZnO-H2O) for the formation of ZnO as reported by Quang et al. (2005). But these needs further investigations.
The wurtzite structure of ZnO can be described as a stack of a number of alternating planes that are fourfold co-ordinated O2− and Zn2+ ions arranged along c-axis. Several crystal planes exist: the basal plane (0001), one end of this plane is terminated to Zn lattice points and \( \left( {000\bar{1}} \right) \) plane terminates to negative oxygen lattice points (Sugunan et al. 2006). The other six low index non-polar facets \( \left( {\bar{1}010} \right) \) are parallel to c-axis. The non-polar facets are energetically most stable and the polar facets are metastable (Pan et al. 2001). The growth rate of various planes follows the growth rule: \( V(0001) > V(01\bar{1}\bar{1}) > V(01\bar{1}0) > V(01\bar{1}1) > V(000\bar{1}) \)(Li et al. 1999). Now the growth rate of (0001) plane is very high. As a result it will be disappeared quickly. Thus, this plane disappears in the experimentally synthesized ZnO leading to the rod-like structure (Li et al. 1999). A more detailed understanding of the growth rate dependence of various morphologies of ZnO nanostructures is reported by Li et al. (1999). Schematic of the growth of the nanorods is shown in Fig. 3. On annealing the nanorods at higher temperatures, the small crystallites coalesce together to form large crystallites and the crystallinity of the material improves, and hence defect states are reduced. Hence shape evolution occurs. There are possibilities of hydroxide shell surrounding the as-synthesized nanorods. But high temperature annealing will remove these hydroxide shell layers. As a result well-grown hexagonal nanorods with narrow tips were observed as shown in Fig. 2b–d).
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study
Typical TEM image of the nanorods annealed at 400°C is shown in Fig. 4a, b. We observed rod-like structures with diameter ~50–100 nm and length ~400 nm as measured from TEM image. The crystallite size (43 nm) is less than the diameter of the nanorods, which indicates the nanorods are composed of several crystallites. The selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern is also shown in the inset of Fig. 4b. The linear diffraction points indicate that the diffraction occurs from a single crystallite within the nanorods.
Fourier transformed infra-red spectroscopy
Figure 5 shows the FTIR spectrum of the ZnO nanorods. A very strong band is observed at ~500 cm−1. This is assigned to the Zn–O stretching bonds (Faal Hamedani and Farzaneh 2006). Another peak at 1,625 cm−1 arises due to the O–H bending mode of water. The vibration mode of OH group was also observed at 3,429 cm−1. It revealed that some water was absorbed by the sample from the atmosphere. The peak at 1,378 cm−1 appeared due to symmetric stretching mode of N = O coming from some unreacted zinc nitrate.
Raman shift measurement
Chemical growth of nanostructured materials usually involves the formation of large amount of surface defects in the nanocrystals. Thus, the Raman spectra of these chemically grown nanomaterials are red shifted and broadened due to the relaxation of the selection rule for the q-vector (conservation of crystal momentum) within the finite size of the nanocrystals. Also the phonon scattering in this case are no longer limited to the Brillouin zone center but dispersed around the centre of the Brillouin zone. This result in the appearance of symmetry forbidden modes along with the shifting and broadening of the first-order optical phonon scattering modes. ZnO has hexagonal crystal structure with space group C 46v . The Raman-active modes for hexagonal ZnO are A1 + 2E2 +E1. The polar modes A1 and E1 can split into transverse optical (TO) and longitudinal optical (LO) modes. The nonpolar E2 mode is composed of two modes with a low and high frequency. Figure 6 shows the Raman spectra of the ZnO nanorods. Prominent vibration peaks at 327, 380, 435, and 578 cm−1 were observed. The 578 cm−1 peak, positioned between A1 (LO) and E1 (LO) optical phonon mode, arises due to the oxygen deficiency. It is in good agreement with the theoretical calculations of Fonoberov and Balandin (2004). As a result existence of oxygen deficiency, we also observe PL emission peak at ~527 nm. The nonpolar E2 mode is observed at 435 cm−1 (Alim et al. 2005; Samanta et al. 2010). The peak at 381 cm−1 is attributed to A1 transverse mode and arises due to the anisotropy in the force constant. It has a different frequency from E1 transverse phonon mode. The 327 cm−1 peak is due to the second order Raman process and is assigned to the 2E2 mode (Fonoberov and Balandin 2004; Alim et al. 2005).
Photoluminescence spectroscopy
Typical PL spectra of the ZnO nanorods annealed at different temperatures are shown in Fig. 7. UV emission is the characteristic emission of ZnO arising due to direct band transition. However, visible emission is also reported from ZnO nanostructures owing to various defects (Samanta and Chaudhuri 2011; Samanta et al. 2009a, b, c; Vanheusden et al. 1996; Jeong et al. 2003; Jin et al. 2000; Fu et al. 1998) such as oxygen vacancies, Zn interstitials, etc. Oxygen, in general, exhibits three types of charge states of oxygen vacancies such as Vo0, Vo+, and Vo2+. The oxygen vacancies are located below the bottom of the conduction band (CB) in the sequence of Vo0, Vo+, and Vo2+, from top to bottom. Shallow acceptor levels are created at 0.3 and 0.4 eV above the top of the valence band (VB) due to zinc vacancy (VZn) and oxygen interstitial (Oi), respectively. Again, zinc interstitial (Zni) produces a shallow donor level at 0.5 eV below the bottom of CB (Samanta and Chaudhuri 2011; Samanta et al. 2009a, b, c; Vanheusden et al. 1996; Jeong et al. 2003; Jin et al. 2000; Fu et al. 1998). In our cases, we observed PL emission (see Fig. 7) in the visible region which indicates that the PL emission from the nanorods in this case is dominated by the defect related deep level emission over the band edge UV emission. Various defect energy levels as calculated from full potential linear Muffin-Tin orbital method (Vanheusden et al. 1996; Jeong et al. 2003; Jin et al. 2000; Fu et al. 1998; Samanta et al. 2009b, c; Lin et al. 2011; Xu et al. 2003) are shown in Fig. 8. The peak at 405 nm (3.06 eV) corresponds to the transition between conduction band and vacancy zinc level while the peak at 425 nm (2.92 eV) corresponds to the recombination between electron at zinc interstitials and hole in the valence band (Vanheusden et al. 1996; Jeong et al. 2003; Jin et al. 2000; Fu et al. 1998; Samanta et al. 2009b, c; Lin et al. 2011; Xu et al. 2003). The peak at 485 nm (2.55 eV) arises due to transition between zinc interstitial and zinc vacancy level. The peak around 527 nm can be related to singly ionized oxygen vacancy (Vanheusden et al. 1996). This green emission at 527 nm (2.35 eV) is the result of the recombination of a photo-generated hole with a singly ionized charged state of the specific defect. For better understanding of the correlation between PL emission and interstitial Zn, we observed the PL spectra of the samples annealed at 200, 400 and 800°C, respectively. At high temperature annealing, the small crystallites coalesce together to form large crystallites and the crystallinity of the material improves. This leads to decrease in interstitial zinc states in the nanocrystals resulting less transitions. Hence at higher annealing temperature the intensity of the visible emission peak at 425 nm from ZnO nanorods is reduced.
For better understanding of the PL emission mechanism, we studied the low temperature PL spectra of the fabricated ZnO nanorods over the temperature range of 10–300 K as shown in Fig. 9. Very sharp peak around 3.36 eV appeared and is assigned to donor-bound excitons (D0X) (Mandal et al. 2008; Vaithianathan et al. 2005; Reynolds et al. 2001; Meyer et al. 2004). Another PL peak of very high intensity appeared at ~3.22 eV owing to zero-phonon transition (Mandal et al. 2008; Vaithianathan et al. 2005; Reynolds et al. 2001). However, Meyer et al. (2004) reported that this PL peak is due to donor–acceptor pair transition. It is also reported that the defect-related PL emission dominates for the nanorods of high-aspect ratio as compared to that of bulk because of more number of surface states and incorporation of impurities. However, there are some reports of strong bound excitonic peak at a temperature below 20 K for ZnO bulk single crystal (Park et al. 2003). In our case, the room temperature PL is dominated by the defect state emission.
Conclusions
Hexagonal ZnO nanorods have been fabricated by a wet chemical process. The fabricated nanorods are well crystallined as revealed from the XRD data. FTIR and Raman shift measurements confirmed various vibrational bonds of the ZnO. A strong violet emission at 425 nm was observed from the nanorods. This violet emission is very rare finding in ZnO nanostructures. This violet emission occurs due to the recombination of electrons at zinc interstitials and holes in the valence band. Thus, the fabricated ZnO nanomaterial can be used as a violet light emitting material and may find its applications in optoelectronic devices.
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The authors sincerely thank Prof. P. R. Chaudhuri and CRF-IIT Kharagpur for providing the FESEM, TEM and FTIR measurements. The authors are also thankful to Prof. S. K. Roy for providing the low temperature PL facility. The authors also acknowledge the financial support provided by Ghatal R. S. Mahavidyalaya to carry out this work.
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Samanta, P.K., Bandyopadhyay, A.K. Chemical growth of hexagonal zinc oxide nanorods and their optical properties. Appl Nanosci 2, 111–117 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-011-0038-8
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