Influence of antimony doping on structural, morphological and optical properties of CuO powders
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In this study, pure and antimony (Sb) doped CuO nano and micro powders were produced by chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique. Their structural, morphological, elemental and optical properties were examined using XRD, SEM, EDX and UV-Vis techniques. According to crystallographic structure analysis, the pure and Sb doped CuO powders were obtained in monoclinic phase. The crystallite size of the powders decreased with the Sb concentration. The FE-SEM images clearly show that flower-like structures in both pure and Sb doped CuO powders were grown. Moreover, the EDX spectra show that the peak intensity of Sb increases upon increasing doping concentration of Sb. The band gap energy value of the powders increased from 1.58 eV to 1.95 eV with increased Sb concentration in CuO. In addition, the key optical parameters such as refractive index, extinction coefficient, and both real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant were calculated.
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