Preparation and structural-optical characterization of dip-coated nanostructured Co-doped ZnO dilute magnetic oxide thin films

Abstract

We demonstrate the feasibility to prepare Co-doped ZnO thin films (Zn_1−xCo<italic>x</italic>O, <italic>x</italic> = 0; 0.01; 0.03 and 0.05) <italic>via</italic> the dip-coating technique, a very simple and a low-cost process. We focus the structural and the optical analyses in the context of the DMOs.