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Estimation of particle size distribution of nanoparticles from electrical characteristics
ARNAB GANGOPADHYAY ADITI SARKAR A SARKAR
Volume 41 Issue 1 February 2018 Article ID 0015
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Keywords
Electrical characteristic ;Coulomb blockade ;quantum dot. -
Abstract
An indirect method of estimation of size distribution of nanoparticles in a nanocomposite is proposed inthis paper. The present approach exploits DC electrical current–voltage characteristics (CVC) of ZnO nanocompositespecimen in bio-polymer background. The nature of DC CVC is found to be oscillatory with respect to applied voltage.The nature of CVC is a consequence of Coulomb blockade (CB) phenomena of electrical conduction through atiny nanoparticle. Considering the ZnO nanocomposites to be spherical, Coulomb-blockade model of quantum dot isapplied here. The size distribution of particle is estimated from that model and compared with the results obtainedfrom AFM and XRD analyses. The results from CVC are found to be consistent with these conventional microscopicresults.
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Author Affiliations
ARNAB GANGOPADHYAY1 ADITI SARKAR1 A SARKAR1
- Department of Physics, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah 711101, India
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Dates
- Published
- 8 February 2018
- Manuscript received
- 9 January 2016
- Accepted
- 13 February 2017
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