Abstract
In this paper, we report the synthesis of nano-structured Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and Magnesium doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO:Mg) using air stable and inexpensive chemicals, by microwave assisted processing. The as-synthesized ZnO and ZnO:Mg nanopowders were annealed at 800 °C for 1 h. The samples were further characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectra. The crystallite size of ZnO decreased from 24 to 16 nm, and the intensity of most prominent vibration band of ZnO becomes weak when Mg dopant is added. SEM images of Mg doped ZnO showed clearly distinct hexagonal shaped nanoparticles with good crystalline quality and size contrast to ZnO. The PL result indicate that the ZnO exhibit strong and sharp UV emission peak at 380 nm. Our result showed that, by doping magnesium into ZnO, the UV emission peak shift towards the lower wavelength at ~370 nm with increasing intensity, which may be attributed to the size confinement. From this study, the microwave processing method has been proved to be successful for preparing other metal oxide nanopowders with good crystal quality.
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