Caracterización electroquímica de películas de óxido de zinc obtenidas por anodizado en medio alcalino

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Matéria (Rio J.)

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

19/07/2018

RESUMO

ABSTRACT Zinc Oxide is a material of particular interest because of its unique optical and electrical properties, which are explored for many applications in optoelectronics and nanoelectronics; and it that can be synthesized economically by the technique of anodization. In this work, the potentiostatic anodization technique was used in dilute NaOH solution, at room temperature, to obtain ZnO anodic films. The morphological and structural properties of the anodized films obtained at different voltages and of the films subjected to heat treatment were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the films were found to be compact, of heterogeneous morphology, and that the particle size was proportional to the applied potential. In addition, electrochemical studies were carried out by applying the Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) technique to evaluate the electrochemical properties of the films. It was demonstrated that the ZnO films presented a resistive and capacitive behavior, the latter being associated to the presence of a constant phase element with identity coefficient (n) defined slightly lower than unity. The thicknesses of the films were determined by adjusting the experimental results obtained by EIS to an equivalent circuit considering the constant phase element as an ideal capacitor. Based on the parameters analyzed it was concluded that larger layers were applied with greater thickness and less resistance, while at lower potentials the layers tended to be thinner and resistive. On the other hand, it was demonstrated that the applied heat treatment caused a decrease in the electrical resistance of the films, and an increase in the capacitance of the system, with its consequent decrease in thickness, with respect to films without heat treatment, but no differences were found in the electrochemical properties between the thermally treated films.

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