Growth, Photoluminescence, and Field Emission of Hierarchical ZnO Nanostructures
Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with the morphology of sleeve-fishes have been fabricated on Si substrate through vapor phase transport at 850 °C. Studies find that each nansleeve-fish is composed of a screw-shaped microrod and some tapering nanowires grown on the microrod, all
of which grow along the [0001] direction. Photoluminescence spectra exhibits strong UV emission around 385 nm without any green emissions detected, indicating that the high-quality ZnO nanostructures with low level of oxygen vacancies are obtained in our experiment. Field-emission measurements
on the nanosleeve-fishes show a turn-on field as low as 2.2 V/μm at a current density of 0.1 μA/cm2 with a anode-sample separation of 600 μm, and the emission current density reached 1 mA/cm2 at an applied field of about 5.8 V/μm. The excellent field emission
properties from such kind of nanostructures make them promising candidates for further applications in FE microelectronic devices.
Keywords: FIELD EMISSION; HIERARCHICAL ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES; VAPOR PHASE TRANSPORT
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2006
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