Optical Properties of Mixed ZnO: Fe2O3 Grown via Pulsed laser deposition

S. M. Hanfoosh; N. K. Hassan

doi:10.24996/ijs.2019.60.9.14

Authors

S. M. Hanfoosh Department of Physics, College of Education for Pure Science, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq
N. K. Hassan Department of Physics, College of Education for Pure Science, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2019.60.9.14

Keywords:

Zinc Oxide, Iron Oxide, Pulsed-laser deposition, structure properties

Abstract

In this study, mixing of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles with iron oxide(Fe₂O₃) at (0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 and 1)%wt., are deposited on glass substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique for study characterization ZnO:Fe₂O₃ as solar cell electrode. The profound effect of mixed film on the structural and optical of ZnO: Fe₂O₃ thin films was observed. Meanwhile, the films have polycrystalline Hexagonal structures for ZnO, Rhombohedra and cubic structure for Fe₂O₃, and as indicated by the X-ray diffraction patterns of the films. The mean crystallite size of ZnO increase with increasing mixed ratio. The direct energy gap (Eg) of ZnO is 3.36 eV and decreasing with increasing mixed ratio.