Abstract
High quality crystalline nanostructured ZnO thin films were fabricated by pulsed laser deposition on (0001) sapphire substrates. The films were investigated by x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and optical absorption spectroscopy. The exciton peak energy from absorption spectra was used to determine the band gap energy Eg, which was found to increase systematically with the decrease in the mean grain size and ranged from 3.388to3.647eV. This is consistent with the quantum confinement model and, up until now, not observed in a convincing manner in the ZnO thin films.
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