Rare earth doped zinc oxide nanophosphor powder: a future material for solid state lighting and solar cells

V Kumar, OM Ntwaeaborwa, T Soga, V Dutta… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive review of up-conversion (UP) and down-conversion (DC) or down shifting
of rare earth (RE) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanophosphors is presented. Research interest in …

Rare earth ion doped phosphors for dye-sensitized solar cells applications

N Yao, J Huang, K Fu, X Deng, M Ding, X Xu - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted extensive attention as one of the
promising alternatives to silicon solar cells. However, DSSCs have a maximum absorption in …

Tunable and white emission from ZnO: Tb3+ nanophosphors for solid state lighting applications

V Kumar, S Som, V Kumar, V Kumar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Terbium doped Zinc oxide (ZnO: Tb 3+) nano-phosphors (NPr) with a hexagonal
wurtzite structure were synthesised by a solution combustion method. X-ray photoelectron …

Structural, optical and photoluminescence properties of Eu3+ doped ZnO nanoparticles

OM Ntwaeaborwa, SJ Mofokeng, V Kumar… - Spectrochimica Acta Part …, 2017 - Elsevier
The structure, particle morphology and luminescent properties of europium (Eu 3+) doped
ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by co-precipitation method are discussed. When excited …

Synthesis, physicochemical characterization of ZnO and α-MoO3/ZnO heterostructures and their photocatalytic activity for the methylene blue (MB) dye degradation

Y Ibrahim, AH Abdullah, SA Rashid, EN Muhamad - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This research fabricated a hybrid of α-MoO 3/ZnO heterostructures via ultrasonic-assisted
hydrothermal synthesis and evaluated its photocatalytic activity by degradation of Methylene …

Properties of flower-like ZnO nanostructures synthesized using the chemical bath deposition

LF Koao, FB Dejene, HC Swart - Materials science in semiconductor …, 2014 - Elsevier
Flower-like zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures were synthesized by the chemical bath
deposition (CBD) method at 80° C. The effect of zinc acetate concentration (mol%) and …

Emission enhancement of Eu3+-doped ZnO by adding charge compensators

K Park, DA Hakeem, JW Pi, GW Jung - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Zn 0.99 O: 0.01 Eu 3+, Zn 0.985 O: 0.01 Eu 3+, and Zn 0.98 O: 0.01 Eu 3+, 0.01
M+(M= Li, Na, and K) phosphors were prepared by solid-state reaction at 900° C and 1000° …

Effect of Eu do** on the photoluminescence properties of ZnO nanophosphors for red emission applications

V Kumar, V Kumar, S Som, MM Duvenhage… - Applied Surface …, 2014 - Elsevier
A simple and efficient combustion method was used to synthesize undoped ZnO and
europium (Eu 3+) doped ZnO or ZnO: Eu 3+ nanophosphors (NPr). The X-ray diffraction …

Luminescence properties of Eu3+ doped La3Ga5GeO14 and effect of Bi3+ co-do**

J Lu, Z Mu, D Zhu, Q Wang, F Wu - Journal of Luminescence, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Red-emitting phosphors La 3 Ga 5 GeO 14: Eu 3+, Bi 3+ were prepared by high
temperature solid state reactions. The structure and luminescence properties of these …

Structure and optical properties of Dy3+ activated sol-gel ZnO-TiO2 nanocomposites

SJ Mofokeng, V Kumar, RE Kroon… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Dysprosium (Dy 3+) activated ZnO-TiO 2 nanocomposite phosphors were
successfully synthesized by the sol-gel method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron …