%0 Journal Article
%T Co-Precipitation Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide Particles Doped with Cu<sup>2+</sup> Ions
%A Mergoramadhayenty Mukhtar
%A Lusitra Munisa
%A Rosari Saleh
%J Materials Sciences and Applications
%P 543-551
%@ 2153-1188
%D 2012
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/msa.2012.38077
%X Nanocrystalline Cu-doped ZnO particles were synthesized by the co-precipitation method. The composition, structural, optical and magnetic characterizations were performed by energy dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy, X-Ray diffraction, UV-Visible spectrometer, and vibrating sample magnetometer. The results confirmed that nanocrystalline Cu-doped ZnO particles have a hexagonal wurtzite structure with a high degree of crystallization and a crystallite size of 10 - 16 nm. For Cu above 11 at%, the X-Ray diffraction pattern possessed CuO secondary phase which shows the solubility limit of Cu in the ZnO lattice. Up to 11% at Cu, the presence of Cu in the ZnO lattice as Zn substitution indicated by an in- crease in lattice parameter values. Nanoparticles showed weak ferromagnetic characteristics at room temperature. The absence of secondary phase related to magnetic precipitate shown intrinsic ferromagnetic behaviour.
%K Cu-Doped ZnO
%K Structural Properties
%K Room Temperature Ferromagnetism
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=21796