Effect Of Annealing On Structure, Morphology, Electrical And Optical Properties Of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Thin Films

Semi-transparent and highly conducting nanostructured titanium oxide thin films have been prepared by sol-gel method. Thin films of TiO2 deposited on glass substrates using spin coating technique and the effect of annealing temperature (400 - 700 °C) on structural, microstructural, electrical and optical properties were studied. The X-ray diffraction and Atomic force microscopy measurements confirmed that the films grown by this technique have good crystalline tetragonal mixed anatase and rutile phase structure and homogeneous surface. The study also reveals that the rms value of thin film roughness increases from 7 to 19 nm. HRTEM image of TiO2 thin film (annealed at 700 °C) shows that a grain of about 50 - 60 nm in size is really aggregate of many small crystallites of around 10 - 15 nm. Electron diffraction pattern shows that the TiO2 films exhibited tetragonal structure. The surface morphology (SEM) of the TiO2 film showed that the nanoparticles are fine with an average grain size of about 50 - 60 nm. The optical band gap slightly decreases from 3.26 - 3.24 eV and the dc electrical conductivity was found in the range of 10-6 to 10-5(Ω·cm)-1 when the annealing temperature is changed from 400 to 700 °C. It is observed that TiO2 thin film annealed at 700 °C after deposition provide a smooth and flat texture suited for optoelectronic applications. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/967

Interacting Two Fluid Viscous Dark Energy Cosmological Models in Bianchi Type II Universe

In this paper, we present a class of solutions of Barber’s second self creation field equations describing two fluid models of the universe in locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type II universe filled with the barotropic fluid and bulk viscous dark energy fluid. Exact solutions of the field equations are obtained for non-interacting and interacting two fluid models. The Physical behavior of the model has been discussed

Magnetized Anisotropic Dark Energy Bianchi Type III Cosmological Models in Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravitation

We investigate the spatially homogeneous Bianchi Type III cosmological models with magnetized anisotropic dark energy fluid in the scalar tensor theory of gravitation proposed by Brans-Dicke [1]. The solutions of the models are obtained by volumetric exponential expansion, power law expansion and power law relation between scalar field and scale factor ‘a’. The physical aspects of the dark energy models are discussed