Research Article
Synthesis of ZrO2:Dy3+ Nanoparticles: Photoluminescent, Photocatalytic, and Electrochemical Sensor Studies
Table 1
Crystallite sizes of ZrO2:Dy3+ (1-11mol%) NPs.
| | Samples | Crystallite size (nm) | Strain () ×10-3 | SF | (1016 lin m-2) | | Scherrer’s formula | W–H plot |
| | ZrO2:Dy3+ (1mol%) | 8.3 | 9.3 | 14.3 | 0.3973 | 1.451 | | ZrO2:Dy3+ (3mol%) | 9.3 | 6.4 | 15.1 | 0.3971 | 1.156 | | ZrO2:Dy3+ (5mol%) | 10.2 | 6.9 | 9.61 | 0.3974 | 0.961 | | ZrO2:Dy3+ (7mol%) | 14.9 | 9.1 | 4.47 | 0.3979 | 0.450 | | ZrO2:Dy3+ (9mol%) | 16.3 | 5.3 | 3.73 | 0.3982 | 0.376 | | ZrO2:Dy3+ (11mol%) | 13.8 | 6.6 | 5.20 | 0.3984 | 0.525 |
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