Structure and Optical Properties of Quantum Confined Pure and Cu Doped SnO2

Abstract

Pure and copper doped tin oxide nanoparticles were synthesized by co-precipitation method and are characterized by XRD, SEM, EDAX, UV-Visible, photoluminescence, and FT-IR analysis techniques. Tetragonal rutile structure is confirmed from XRD and the crystallite size is found to be between 3.8nm and 4.8nm. The optical band gap is observed from UV-Vis spectrum and is found to be 3.99eV and 3.93eV for tin oxide and copper doped tin oxide respectively. The optical band gap of pure and Copper doped tin oxide were blue shifted due to quantum confinement. Photoluminescence spectrum shows UV, blue and green emission peaks.