The Influence of Recrystallization on Zinc Oxide Microstructures Synthesized with Sol–Gel Method on Scintillating Properties
Ewelina Nowak,
Mirosław Szybowicz,
Alicja Stachowiak,
Daria Piechowiak,
Andrzej Miklaszewski,
Marcin E. Witkowski,
Michał Makowski,
Winicjusz Drozdowski,
Kazimierz Paprocki,
Kazimierz Fabisiak,
Szymon Łoś,
Marek Trzcinski
Affiliations
Ewelina Nowak
Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Materials Research and Quantum Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 61-138 Poznań, Poland
Mirosław Szybowicz
Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Materials Research and Quantum Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 61-138 Poznań, Poland
Alicja Stachowiak
Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Physics, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 61-138 Poznań, Poland
Daria Piechowiak
Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Materials Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 61-138 Poznań, Poland
Andrzej Miklaszewski
Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Materials Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 61-138 Poznań, Poland
Marcin E. Witkowski
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Grudziądzka 5/7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Michał Makowski
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Grudziądzka 5/7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Winicjusz Drozdowski
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Grudziądzka 5/7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Kazimierz Paprocki
Institute of Physics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Jana Karola Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kazimierz Fabisiak
Institute of Physics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Jana Karola Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Szymon Łoś
Institute of Mathematics and Physics, UTP University of Science and Technology, Profesora Sylwestra Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Marek Trzcinski
Institute of Mathematics and Physics, UTP University of Science and Technology, Profesora Sylwestra Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the wide-bandgap semiconductors, which may be useful in a plethora of electronic, optical, piezoelectric, and scintillating applications. The following article consists in a structural and luminescence analysis of ZnO microfilms grown on a sapphire substrate with a sol–gel method. The films were annealed at different temperatures. The structures were investigated with the XRD and Raman methods, by which the influence of the substrate on the structure of the film was determined. The luminescence of films was investigated with room-temperature fluorescence, radioluminescence, and thermoluminescence.
