چكيده به لاتين
Abstract:
In this work, Nb, Al-codoped ZnO (NAZO) thin films have been prepared on soda lime glass substrates by sol gel deposition.
Zinc acetate dehydrates, 2-metoxyetanol and Monoethanolamine were used as precursor, solvent and complexing agent, respectively. Concentration of precursor was constants in 0.7 M. The ratio of stabilizer to precursor was 1 (stabilizer⁄precocer=1). For creating the dopant in thin film, we used aluminum chloride and niobium chloride as first and second dopants, respectively. The concentration of Al dopant was constants in all of thin films. After preparation of the thin film, the structural and the electrical and the optical properties of Nb, Al-codoped ZnO films were investigated with different Nb contents (0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 at %) in this thesis. The presence of niobium as dopant changes the morphology of thin film from 2D dimensional thin film to 1D dimensional nano rod. With increasing the Nb dopant, density of nano rods increased. Sample whit 2%Nb possesses the critical point of two different trends in alignment of nano rode. The Nano rods orientation was effected by percent of Nb. Also with increased the random orientation, decreased the density of (0 0 2) in XRD plots. The optical transmittance of thin films decreases with increasing of the nano rods density. The average optical transmittance of all thin films approximately above 70% in the visible region. The band gap of all thin films reduces from 3.28 eV to 3.23 eV with increasing the Nb content. Nb+5 replacement causes to decrease in sheet resistance and minimum resistivity value of 3.38 KΩ/Sq was measured for 1% NAZO thin film. In addition, the photocatalysis activities of prepared thin films were investigated to photodegradation of methylene blue. The obtained results indicated that thin film with 3% NB showed best photocatalysis activity.
Keywords: Zinc oxide, thin film, Sol gel, Sheet resistanc, Photocatalyst, Methylene blue.