J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2020, Vol. 57: 180-187.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2020.02.056
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Elham Gharibshahi*(), Brandon D. Young, Amar S. Bhalla, Ruyan Guo
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2019-11-20
Accepted:
2020-02-04
Published:
2020-11-15
Online:
2020-11-20
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Elham Gharibshahi
Elham Gharibshahi, Brandon D. Young, Amar S. Bhalla, Ruyan Guo. Theory, simulation and experiment of optical properties of cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2020, 57: 180-187.
Fig. 5. 3D plots of CoFe2O4 nanoparticles of different sizes generated by COMSOL, where the color scale indicates the amplitude of E-field or H-field.
Fig. 10. DFT-simulated, COMSOL-simulated, and experiment plots of $\text{d}\left( \text{ln}\left( \alpha h\nu \right) \right)/\text{d}\left( h\nu \right)$ versus hν for the CoFe2O4 nanoparticles, exhibiting a discontinuity at the estimated band gap energy value.
Particles size (nm) | DFT-simulated band gap (eV) | COMSOL-simulated band gap (eV) | Experimental band gap (eV) |
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30 | 3.734 | ? | 2.442 |
40 | 3.492 | 3.607 | ? |
50 | 2.781 | 2.872 | 1.880 |
Table 1 DFT-simulated, COMSOL-simulated, and experimental band gap values of CoFe2O4 nanoparticles employing Tauc’s approach.
Particles size (nm) | DFT-simulated band gap (eV) | COMSOL-simulated band gap (eV) | Experimental band gap (eV) |
---|---|---|---|
30 | 3.734 | ? | 2.442 |
40 | 3.492 | 3.607 | ? |
50 | 2.781 | 2.872 | 1.880 |
Particles size (nm) | DFT-simulated band gap (eV) | COMSOL-simulated band gap (eV) | Experimental band gap (eV) | DFT- simulated accuracy (%) | COMSOL-simulated accuracy (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
30 | 3.499 | ? | 3.473±0.025 | 0.743 | ? |
40 | 3.228 | 3.266 | ? | ? | ? |
50 | 2.478 | 2.456 | 2.697±0.014 | 8.838 | 9.813 |
Table 2 DFT-simulated, COMSOL-simulated, and experimental band gap values of $\text{d}\left( \text{ln}\left( \alpha h\nu \right) \right)/\text{d}\left( h\nu \right)$ versus hν for the CoFe2O4 nanoparticles.
Particles size (nm) | DFT-simulated band gap (eV) | COMSOL-simulated band gap (eV) | Experimental band gap (eV) | DFT- simulated accuracy (%) | COMSOL-simulated accuracy (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
30 | 3.499 | ? | 3.473±0.025 | 0.743 | ? |
40 | 3.228 | 3.266 | ? | ? | ? |
50 | 2.478 | 2.456 | 2.697±0.014 | 8.838 | 9.813 |
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