Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology

Modified urea route synthesis for studies on the structural properties of Sm3+ and Nd3+ dopedY2O3 nanoparticles

6^th Global Experts Meeting on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

April 21-23, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Siva Prasad Peddi, H Mathlouthi, Bilal Abdallah Sadeh and Mohamed Abdelhaye Yehdih

Aljouf University, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nanomed Nanotechnol

Abstract:

Rare earth doped nanoparticles have been identified to possess excellent crystallographic stability with characteristics that suit their utility in vast applications such as waveguides, coating material under severe reactive conditions, oxide hosts in lasers and their fluorescence properties have been identified to possess multitude of industrial applications. Yttrium oxide is one of the most passable of the yttrium compounds, which finds itself in the midst of fabrication from solid state laser ceramics to high temperature superconductors. RE3+:Y2O3 nano particles have been prepared using samarium and neodymium for the dopant RE3+. Rare earth doped yttrium oxide nano particles were synthesized successfully using a simple and low cost modified precipitation method using urea. Characterization of nanoparticles using XRD indicated the formation of RE3+:Y2O3 nano particles in various crystalline orientations after verification where all the impurity peaks that existed with the powder in its dry form at 300°C vanished after calcination at 900°C. The mean size of the particles has been found to be between 80-150 nm. The mean crystallite size ranges have been estimated from the broadening of diffraction peaks and the results were found to be in agreement with size analysis measurement.

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