Effect of yttrium doping on the photocatalytic properties of ZnO thin films
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Published:2023-09-04
Issue:3
Volume:24
Page:422-428
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ISSN:2309-8589
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Container-title:Physics and Chemistry of Solid State
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language:
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Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Solid St.
Author:
Hrytsak L.,Turko B.,Vasil’ev V.,Eliyashevskyy Y.,Kostruba A.,Hrytsak A.
Abstract
Zinc oxide films with different levels of yttrium doping are deposited on glass substrates, using radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. Photocatalytic properties were investigated for such Y-doping weight concentration: 0, 2.4, 3.9, 4.7 wt. %. The studies showed that the Y-doping significantly improves the photocatalytic activity of the ZnO thin films. It was shown that the ZnO:Y 3.9 wt. % presents the highest degradation efficiency of 100 % during 80 minutes and the largest rate constant 9.6 · 10-2 min-1 among all samples.
Publisher
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science