Synthesis and Photoluminescence of Single-Crystalline Fe(III)-Doped CdS Nanobelts.

In this paper, we report the synthesis and optical properties of Fe(III) doped CdS nanobelts (NBs) via simple Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) technique to explore their potential in nano-optics. The energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis manifested the presence of Fe(III) ions in the NBs subsequently confirmed by the peak shifting to lower phonon energies as recorded by Raman spectra and shorter lifetime in ns. Photoluminescence (PL) spectrum investigations of the single Fe(III)-doped CdS NBs depicted an additional PL peak centered at 573 nm (orange emission) in addition to the bandedge(BE) emission.