Affiliation

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt

Corresponding Author

: AboElkhier, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt, E-mail: aboelkhier@hotmail.com

Citation

Abo Elkhier., et al. Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Characterization of Mn-Doped CdS Nanoparticles. (2019) J Nanotechnol Material Sci 6(1): 1- 3.

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© 2019 Elkhier, A. This is an Open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords

CdS:Mn nanoparticle; Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Abstract

  Manganese doped cadmium sulfide (CdS:Mn) nanoparticles  with varying weight percentage 2, and 10 % have been synthesized by wet chemical reaction route under argon atmosphere using mercaptoethanol as a capping agent. The obtained nanoparticles are characterized by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) technique. The crystal size estimated from (XRD) of the prepared NPs was about 4 - 6 nm with cubic zinc blende structure. VSM data of Mn doped CdS nanoparticles show weak hysteresis loops at room temperature indicating the superparamagnetic behavior that can be change to ferromagnetic by cooling the samples to 20 ⁰K.