Model representing growth mechanism in the LB thin film during phase transformation from α- to β-phase on annealing.

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A low cost hydrothermal method and subsequent wet-chemical process has been used for the preparation of a ZnO nanorod (NR) array film grown on tin doped indium oxide (ITO) coated glass substrates, post decorated by α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (NPs).

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The UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy analysis reveals that prominent J-aggregation of ZnPc molecules was observed in the LB films while no such aggregation was found in the solution. Change in fluorescence color of ZnPc LB film from its solution confirms the appearance of new aggregation.

The ZnPc molecules in the thin film prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) process in asdeposited state has been found to have an edge on orientation with average tilt angle of 64.3 ° as confirmed from the Pressure-Area (π-A) isotherm and X-ray diffraction (XRD) study. The ZnPc LB thin film has been observed to have abnormal growth mode at higher annealing temperature and it is mainly driven by minimization of surface free energy which lead to large increase in crystallinity of the film. Kinetically favored orientational and structural transitions of ZnPc thin film during annealing and their effect on the surface morphology of the thin film has been studied using scaling concepts. The scaling exponents 1) root mean square (RMS) roughness σ, 2) roughness exponent α and, 3) in plane correlation length ξ are calculated from the HDCF g(r) and ACF C(r). The RMS surface roughness σ is found to be dependent on the as defined short wavelength undulations (ρ) and long wavelength undulations (χ). Both ρ and χ are the function of all the three scaling exponents. σ has been observed to be maximum for the ZnPc thin film annealed at 290 °C, since the χ shoot to maximum value at this temperature due to the formation of small domains of ZnPc nanorods. The self affinity of the ZnPc thin film is found to decrease on annealing as obtained from both power spectral density (PSD) and HDCF g(R) & ACF C(R) study, which confirms that the dimension of surface morphology of the ZnPc LB thin film transform towards 2D with increase in annealing temperature.