Fabrication of Ag nanoparticle/ZnO thin films using dual-plasma-enhanced metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (DPEMOCVD) system incorporated with photoreduction method and its application

Optimization of electron beam-deposited silver nanoparticles on zinc oxide for maximally surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

“… 36,37 The semiconducting nature of ZnO also enables charge transfer between the ZnO and Ag, 38 increasing surface enhancement over strategies that rely solely on the electromagnetic mechanism. Crystalline ZnO is also transparent to visible light, 39 which reduces absorptive loss of light when acquiring spectra through the substrate as we did in our previous work. 28 Additionally, ZnO possesses a large refractive index of approximately 2.0 in the visible region, which aids in the confinement of light.…”

Applications of Ion Beam Irradiation in Multifunctional Oxide Thin Films: A Review

“…Multifunctional oxides are a broad family of materials exhibiting a series of special properties, such as ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, dielectricity, superconductivity, and electrochemical activity. − Some of these oxides show strong coupling among lattice, charge, orbital, and spin order parameters, which provide a unique platform for studying a variety of cross-coupling effects including multiferroicity, metal-insulator transition (MIT), and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR). − Moreover, oxides in the form of thin films are of particular interest, because they often exhibit distinct material properties from the corresponding bulk crystals − due to the modified defect state, − lattice strain, , structural distortion, , surface area, , exotic polar topology, etc. Therefore, great efforts have been made to fabricate oxide thin films using advanced thin film synthesis techniques, including pulsed laser deposition (PLD), − atomic layer deposition (ALD), , chemical vapor deposition (CVD), , and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). , Despite the successful fabrications of many oxide thin films, precisely controlling the thin film properties during the synthesis is still difficult due to the limited choice of substrates, difficulty to realize local control, and challenge to scale up.…”

“…5−9 Moreover, oxides in the form of thin films are of particular interest, because they often exhibit distinct material properties from the corresponding bulk crystals 10−13 due to the modified defect state, 14−16 lattice strain, 17,18 structural distortion, 19,20 surface area, 21,22 exotic polar topology, 23 etc. Therefore, great efforts have been made to fabricate oxide thin films using advanced thin film synthesis techniques, including pulsed laser deposition (PLD), 24−26 atomic layer deposition (ALD), 27,28 chemical vapor deposition (CVD), 29,30 and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). 31,32 Despite the successful fabrications of many oxide thin films, precisely controlling the thin film properties during the synthesis is still difficult due to the limited choice of substrates, difficulty to realize local control, and challenge to scale up.…”

Highly oriented and conducting Bi doped ZnO (BZO) layers chemically sprayed using nitrogen gas carrier

“…The last one is the most favorable solution to tune the electrical properties of Zinc oxide. Recently, doping effects in ZnO with several elements has attracted more attention such us Mg [14], Al [15], Ag [16], Cu [17], Ga [18], Sn [19], Cd [20] and others, but in our knowledge Bi-doping ZnO films prepared by N 2 pneumatic spray pyrolysis method have not been studied yet.…”