Gas sensitive luminescence of ZnO coatings obtained by plazmaelectrolytic oxidation

L. Grigorjeva, D. Millers, K. Smits, A. Zolotarjovs

The ZnO coatings on Zn substrate were obtained using plasma electrolytic oxidation method. The XRDand SEM methods were used for structural and morphological characterization of obtained coatings. Theluminescence of ZnO coatings were studied and compared with luminescence characteristics of ZnO sin-gle crystal. It is shown that luminescence intensity in ZnO defect band depends on oxygen concentrationin ambient atmosphere. The effect is of interest for oxygen sensing based on ZnO coating luminescence

Sensors and Actuators A 234 (2015) 290–293

doi:10.1016/j.sna.2015.09.018

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Luminescence of oxygen related defects in zirconia nanocrystals

K. Smits, L. Grigorjeva, W. Łojkowski, and J. D. Fidelus

The luminescence of undoped tetragonal structure ZrO2 nanocrystals was studied. The luminescence intensity
depends on oxygen content in gases mixture in which the nanocrystals were annealed. The distorted
Zr-O bond is suggested to be the recombination center for band carriers. The oxygen deficient defect
is proposed to be responsible for photoluminescence.

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics 4, No. 3, 770– 773 (2007)

DOI 10.1002/pssc.200673850

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