Vibrational, Electronic and Structural Study of Sprayed ZnO Thin Film Based on the IR-Raman Spectra and DFT Calculations
Vibrational, Electronic and Structural Study of Sprayed ZnO Thin Film Based on the IR-Raman Spectra and DFT Calculations作者机构:Unité de Physique des Dispositifs a Semi-Conducteurs Faculté des Sciences de Tunis Tunis El Manar University Tunis Tunisia
出 版 物:《Crystal Structure Theory and Applications》 (晶体结构理论与应用(英文))
年 卷 期:2022年第11卷第2期
页 面:23-38页
学科分类:08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程(可授工学、理学学位)] 080502[工学-材料学]
主 题:DFT Thin Film Electronic Structure IR and Raman Spectroscopy
摘 要:Applying the Density Function Theory (DFT) combined with LCAO basis set and employing the B3LYP hybrid functional, the optimized geometrical parameters, electronic properties, as well as the Infrared and Raman spectra for wurtzite-ZnO structure were investigated. Prior to computing, ZnO thin film prepared by the spray pyrolysis method is characterized by X-ray diffraction using Rietveld refinement. This analysis shows that ZnO has hexagonal wurtzite structure (P63mc) with lattice parameters, a = 3.2467 and c = 5.2151 Åin good agreement with our predicted optimized geometry. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman spectroscopy and UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometry techniques are used to explore morphological, optical and vibrational properties of the sprayed ZnO thin film. The computed band gap is in excellent agreement with that deduced from UV-Vis transmission . The simulated infrared and Raman spectra were also calculated, and a good agreement with the measured spectra is obtained. Finally, a detailed interpretation of the infrared and Raman spectra is reported.