Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyl Green Dye Mediated by Pure and Mn-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles under Solar Light Irradiation

Table 1

The estimation of crystallite size and microstrain in pure and Mn-doped ZnO samples using the W-H method.

Parameters		Peak position	FWHM	-axis	-axis	-intercept	Crystallite size	Microstrain (Є)
	λ(Å)	2θ (deg)	(deg)				(nm)	No unit
Structural parameters for pure ZnO XRD’s data using Williamson-Hall plot
0.94	1.5406	36.20237	0.49032	1.242784353	0.008134172	0.00657	21.10410959
		34.3841	0.42664	1.182301995	0.007113569
		31.7238	0.46896	1.093278514	0.007873242
		47.47716	0.51164	1.61025698	0.008174267
		56.53489	0.51897	1.89435141	0.007977569
		62.78453	0.57248	2.083577587	0.008529093
		67.87294	0.62157	2.233093267	0.009000488
		68.99383	0.60138	2.265447449	0.008650399
Structural parameters for Mn-doped ZnO XRD’s data using Williamson-Hall plot
0.94	1.5406	36.36538	0.59023	1.2481916	0.009787068	0.00739	18.7623816
		34.54185	0.47705	1.1875614	0.007950683
		31.90264	0.56533	1.0992822	0.009486951
		47.60118	0.65403	1.6142189	0.010444196
		56.66233	0.67434	1.8982682	0.010359701
		62.88501	0.74308	2.0865708	0.011064849
		67.96516	0.7939	2.2357633	0.01148964
		69.10656	0.67618	2.2686894	0.009719761