Influence of Doping Ratio on the Structural, Magnetic, and Optical Properties of Co2+-doped CdSe Semiconductor Quantum Dots

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As shown in the experimental part, CdSe quantum dots doped with cobalt ions prepared by thermal decomposition of organometallic precursors for both Cd2+ and Co2+ ions. Different cobalt ions concentration has been mixed with the Cd-Stearate in the reaction mixture. The prepared samples using different cobalt ion concentration has been characterized via TEM and XRD in order to determine the influence of doping on the magnetic and optical properties. Structural Properties: XRD Investigation: In order to prove that doping with Co2+ ions takes place, the XRD patterns have been investigated for four samples prepared using different cobalt concentration relative to Cd2+ concentration, which represent 0, 2, 10, and 20%. All samples which compared are having the same size about 4.2 nm, and the same optical band gap about 516 nm. The only difference is the doping ratio. Doping of crystal with impurities doesn’t result in appearance of new XRD peaks, but instead of leads to gradual shifts in the lattice parameters of the host material as the dopant concentration is increased from the dilute limit. The shifts arise from the strain induced when the dopant is incorporated into the periodic crystal lattice. The XRD pattern as shown in Figure (1) indicate that the prepared particles have Wurtizite (Wz) crystal structure for both of undoped CdSe, and Co2+-doped CdSe QDs samples. In case of undoped CdSe QDs; where the Wz structure shows four distinct features: the first at 2θ= 23.9° due to the (100), and the three broad features appearing at 2θ=41.82, 45.71, and 49.98° due to the (110), (103), and (112) reflections, respectively. In case of Co2+-doped CdSe with doping ratio of 2%, the three most distinct features of Wz structure are slightly shif... ... middle of paper ... ...tes" J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 115, (1993) 8706. 70. Qu, L.; Peng, Z.A. and Peng, X.;”Alternative Routes toward High Quality CdSe Nanocrystals”, Nano Letters, 1 (2001) 333. 71. Peng, Z.A. and Peng, X.;” Formation of high-quality CdTe, CdSe, and CdS nanocrystals using CdO as precursor", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (2001) 183 72. Mona B. Mohamed, Dino Tonti, Awas Al-Salman, Abdelkrim Chemseddine and Majed El-Chagui. "Synthesis of High Quality Zinc Blende CdSe Nanocrystals" J. Phys. Chem. 10, (2005) 1533. 73. Bawendi, M.G.; “Chemistry and Physics of Semiconductor Nanoclusters”, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 208 (1994) 4-Inor. 74. Emam, A.N.; Girgis, E.; Mostafa, A.A.; Guirguis, O.W.; Mohamed, M.B.,“ Magnetic Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Novel Synthetic Method & Characterization of CdSe Nanocrystals Doped with Co+2 Ions“, in preparation (submitted 2012

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