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Structural, Morphological, and Optical Analysis of La-Doped NiO Films Fabricated by the Sol-Gel Spin-Coating Technique for Solid-State Electronics

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La-doped nanostructured NiO films are fabricated by the sol-gel spin-coating technique on a fluorine-doped tin-oxide glass. The atomic-force microscopy of La : NiO films demonstrates a change in the grain size of the film due to doping with La. X-ray diffraction shows that La : NiO films are of a nanocrystalline nature, the crystallite size decreases as the La content increases. The optical constants are calculated by the Kramers–Kronig method. The band gap decreases at a higher La dopant content due to the quantum-confinement effect. The values of the nonlinear susceptibility of the films of first and third orders are also calculated, and these parameters behave in a similar way. A highly effective radiation-protective material based on La : NiO films is obtained.

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This work was financially supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University within the framework of the research-group program (project no. R.G.P.2/43/40).

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  1. The Smart Materials Research Institute, Southern Federal University, 344006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    A. M. Aboraia, P. A. Rud, V. V. Butova & A. V. Soldatov

  2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 71542, Assiut, Egypt

    A. M. Aboraia

  3. Department of Physics and Nanotechnology Research Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, 71491, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

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  4. Department of Physics, Faculty of Education at Al-Mahweet, Sana’a University, Al-Mahweet, Yemen

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    H. Y. Zahran, I. S. Yahia & A. F. Abd El-Rehim

  7. Nanoscience Laboratory for Environmental and Bio-medical Applications (NLEBA), Semiconductor Lab., Metallurgical Lab1, Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, 11757, Roxy, Cairo, Egypt

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Aboraia, A.M., Darwish, A.A., Zahran, H.Y. et al. Structural, Morphological, and Optical Analysis of La-Doped NiO Films Fabricated by the Sol-Gel Spin-Coating Technique for Solid-State Electronics. J. Surf. Investig. 16, 1048–1054 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1027451022060027

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