摘要
采用共沉淀（co-precipitation）法制备了Mg掺杂ZnO纳米晶,分别用X射线衍射（XRD）、傅立叶变换红外光谱（FTIR）、紫外可见吸收（UV-Vis）光谱、光致发光（PL）光谱、透射电镜（TEM）、电子顺磁共振（EPR）等分析手段对样品进行了表征。探究了Mg离子在ZnO纳米晶中的存在状态,ZnO纳米晶颗粒尺寸和发射光谱随Mg掺杂浓度的变化,并对其发光机理进行了分析。结果表明：Mg离子在ZnO晶格中以部分晶格位,部分间隙位的方式存在,没有形成MgO表面壳层结构;随Mg掺杂浓度的增大,ZnO纳米晶的颗粒尺寸变小,发射光的光强增大。发射光的最佳激发波长为342nm,中心波长为500nm,荧光量子产率为22.8%。实验分析表明：Mg离子的掺杂在ZnO纳米晶中引入了锌空位（VZn）,间隙位的镁离子（IMg）,提供了新的复合中心,从而增强了ZnO纳米晶的光致发光。
ZnO-based luminescent nanomaterials have attracted comprehensive attention because of their great potential applications in ultraviolet laser devices,LED fabrication and bio-imaging due to their large exciton banding energy （60 meV） and wide bandgap （3.37 eV）,low toxicity and high photo-stability.ZnO nanomaterials exhibit two kinds of emission：one is ultraviolet （UV） near-band-edge emission at approximately 380 nm and the other is visible deep-level emission in the range 450 ～ 730 nm.Generally,ZnO nanomaterials fabricated at high temperature by PLD,CVD and magnetron sputtering get good crystallization and exhibit nearband-edge emission with negligible visible emission.To get highly luminescent visible light emitting ZnO nanomaterials,mass of visible light emitting defects should be introduced to ZnO crystal.Low temperature fabricating and doping are two kinds of methods to introduce defects into crystals.Because the tetrahedral ionic radius of Mg^2 ＋ （0.057 nm） is similar to that of Zn^2 ＋ （0.060 nm）,wide range solubility of Mg^2 ＋ in the zinc blend structure is expected.So,Mg^2 ＋ doped ZnO nanomaterials have been studied comprehensively.At high temperature,Mg^2 ＋ ions take Zn^2 ＋ positions in hexagonal structure and form Zn1-xMgxO alloys,band gap of which can be tuned in 3.3 ～ 7.8 eV by verifying Mg^2 ＋ content.The alloys have been used widely in ultraviolet lasers and Zn1-x MgxO/ZnO heterojunction optoelectronic devices research.However,at low temperature in liquid,because of low free energy and short ionic radius,Mg^2 ＋ ions can facilely enter interstitial positions between lattice planes of wurtzite structured ZnO and form Zn vacancies in the crystal,which should introduce energy levels in band gap of ZnO and make the ZnO nanomaterials emit strong visible light.So,it is of both theoretical and practical meanings to study luminescent property of Mg doped ZnO namomaterials prepared at low temperature.In typical preparation,ZnO colloidal nanocrystals were synthesized at
出处
《发光学报》
EI
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2010年第4期561-567,共7页
Chinese Journal of Luminescence
基金
国家自然科学基金(10774118)资助项目
