SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NI-DOPED ZnO NANORODS PREPARED BY THE CO-PRECIPITATION METHOD

Zinc oxide nanorods and diluted magnetic semiconducting Ni-doped ZnO nanorods had been prepared byco-precipitation method. This method is straightforward and costs powerful. Ni-doped and undoped ZnO of trendy components nanoparticles Zn1-xNixO, (where x = 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06 and 0.08) were correctly synthesized by co-precipitation approach. The structure and the optical properties of obtained samples have been investigated using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic analysis (EDX), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and UV?visible absorption spectroscopy. XRD patterns of doped samples display that the lattice constants of Zn1-xNixO, of x > 0.0 are slightly larger than the ones of pure ZnO. However, XRD reveals that both exhibit hexagonal wurtzite structure. The energy band gap has also been estimated using measured UV-VIS optical absorption spectra. EDX spectroscopy was used to identify the elemental constituents of a material. Also, TEM investigations give further insight to the morphology and the structural features of Ni-doped ZnO nanorods.