Single-crystalline ZnO nanobelts by RF sputtering

One-dimensional ZnO nanostructures: Solution growth and functional properties

“…This configuration has normally been observed using gas phase synthesis approaches [14,31,[164][165][166], and is not favorable using aqueous approaches because-as discussed previously-wet chemical methods are usually considered to be under thermodynamic equilibrium, and the driving force is the minimization of the free energy of the entire reaction system [56]. However, there have been several reports of the synthesis of rectangular cross-sectional ZnO nanobelts by wet chemical methods, even though they were not necessarily growing along the non-polar directions.…”

Dielectric properties of PbTiO3/ZnO ceramic nanocomposites obtained by solid-state reaction method

“…Commercially available powders of PbO (Fluka, >99.9% purity) and TiO2 (Aldrich, >99.9% purity) were used as raw materials to produce PT powders. Composites were made with the synthesized PT powders (average particle size ∼1-5 m) and ZnO nanowhiskers [20] (average diameter ∼0.4-2 m and ∼12-36 m length), as shown in Fig. 1.…”

Aligned Zinc Oxide nanorods by hybrid wet chemical route and their field emission properties

“…In particular, it is a wide-direct-band gap (~3.37 eV) groups II-VI semiconductor with many potential applications such as nanolaser arrays [2,6], gas sensors [7][8][9][10], field emission devices [11][12][13] and luminescent materials [14][15][16][17]. Luminescence property of ZnO has been investigated with several excitation energy sources such as photoluminescence (PL) [14][15][16][17] and ionoluminescence (IL) [18]. Generally, both UV and visible emissions have been observed due to the excitonic recombination and deep level emissions, respectively.…”