TY - JOUR ID - TI - Structural Properties of CuPc:(Au, Ag) NPs Thin Films Deposited by Spin Coating Technique AU - Ahmad Gh. Ahmad, Adnan R. Ahmad, Ameer F. Abdulameer PY - 2023 VL - 19 IS - 3A SP - 19 EP - 24 JO - Iraqi Journal of Applied Physics المجلة العراقية للفيزياء التطبيقية SN - 18132065 23091673 AB - In this paper, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) thin films doped with gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared using spin coating technique on glass substrates. The gold and silver nanoparticles were prepared by pulsed-laser ablation (PLA) technique. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicated that these nanoparticles were primarily spherical and their sizes were determined to be in the range 7-43 nm for Au NPs, and 12-50 nm for Ag NPs. The structural characteristics were analyzed with x-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The XRD patterns confirmed the presence of a polymorphism structure predominated by a CuPc phase with a plane (1 ̅01) orientation preference at 2θ~7.1°. The FE-SEM used to investigate the structural formation of these films has shown that CuPc thin films have granular nature stacking. On the other hand, the elemental composition of films was confirmed by EDX analysis, which revealed compositional uniformity of the detected components and the (Au, Ag) NPs were loaded throughout the CuPc films.

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