Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 48, 10603 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2009128

Structure and photoluminescence properties of SnO₂ nanowires synthesized from SnO powder

¹ Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, 394006 Voronezh, Russia
² Department of physics, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

Corresponding author: nomery_abass@yahoo.com

Received: 13 January 2009
Accepted: 7 May 2009
Published online: 24 July 2009

Abstract

One-dimensional (1D) SnO₂ nanowires were synthesized from SnO powder by heat treatment of SnO powder under Ar gas flow at atmospheric pressure, with the next annealing on the air at 1000 °C. The morphology and microstructure of the single crystalline SnO₂ nanowires are characterized by means of the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The band gaps of the products are ~(3.42–3.78 eV) determined from UV/visible absorption spectral results. The SnO₂ nanowires show stable photoluminescence (PL) with one emission peak centred at around ~2 eV.