Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Physics

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 37d
  • Issue: 2

Optical properties of copper ferrite nano-particle synthesized via hydrothermal technique

1Department of Physics, Sri Krishnadevaray University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, 515003, India

2Rayalaseema University, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, 518002, India

Abstract

CuFe2O4 nano-particle prepared via low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis technique to investigate structural and optical properties. The synthesized copper ferrite (CF) nano-particle characterized by followed techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Visible Spectroscopy. The single-phase cubic spinel structure found from XRD analysis and average crystallite size, the strain was estimated calculated and camper with the WH plots. The optical band gap estimation was carried out from UV-Visible Spectroscopy absorption spectra.

Keywords

Nanoparticle, X-ray diffraction, w-h plots, optical band gap