Influence of Carbon Modification on the Morphological, Structural, and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Pneumatic Spray Pyrolysis Technique

Table 2

The position of the main diffraction peaks and average crystallite size calculated from XRD patterns of the fabricated ZnO NPs.

Sample #	ZnO(100) peak position (°)	ZnO(002) peak position (°)	ZnO(101) peak position (°)	XRD crystallite size (nm); (100)	XRD crystallite size (nm); (002)	XRD crystallite size (nm); (101)
Unmodified	31.97	34.35	36.22	11.30	12.50	9.60
C-ZnO	31.97	34.35	36.22	16.56	17.38	16.28
C-ZnO	31.97	34.35	36.22	10.69	13.68	9.99
C-ZnO	31.97	34.35	36.22	10.70	12.40	9.96