Nanostructured Surfaces
 International research and practice conference "Nanotechnology and nanomaterials")

Surface morphologies of (Mg, Al, Co, Mn) doped Zinc oxide thin films
A. Mahroug, R. Amari, A. Boukhari, B. Deghfel

Laboratory of Materials Physics and Its Applications, University of M’sila, 28000 M’sila, Algeria.

Abstract 
 
In this work (Mg, Al, Co, Mn) doped ZnO thin films with different amounts of dopants have been deposited onto glass substrates by sol–gel spin coating method. Zinc acetate dihydrate, Magnesium chloride,  hexahydrate aluminum chloride hexahydrate, cobalt acetate tetrahydrate, manganese acetate tetrahydrate, Isopropanol and monoethanolamine (MEA) were used as a precursor, doping sources, solvent and stabilizer respectively. The molar ratio of MEA to metal ions was maintained at 1.0 and a concentration of metal ions is 0.6 mol.L-1.
We have studied the surface morphologies of thin films by atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction. The obtained results of all thin films are discussed in detail