Citation: ZHOU Fei-Chi, YUAN Long, FENG Shou-Hua, Martyn A McLachlan, ZHANG Jia-Qi. Seed-Layer Effect on Highly Oriented ZnO Nanorod Array Fabrication[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2018, 34(9): 1655-1662. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2018.210 shu

Seed-Layer Effect on Highly Oriented ZnO Nanorod Array Fabrication

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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Corresponding author: ZHANG Jia-Qi, zhangjiaqi@jlu.edu.cn
Received Date: 12 May 2018
Revised Date: 15 June 2018

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Vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays have been extensively applied to the fabrication of various optoelectronic devices owing to their versatile properties. However, to control and investigate the morphology of nanorods is directly related to device performances. A seeded substrate is favourable for the hydrothermal synthesis of nanorods by lowering the nucleation barrier and restricting the migration of the disordered nucleation. Therefore, varying the seed layer properties is a feasible and effective way to control the nanorod growth. In this paper, three different methods sol-gel, spray pyrolysis and pulse laser deposition (PLD) were employed to the ZnO seed layer preparation. For each preparation method, the crystal structure, morphologies, surface roughness and properties of ZnO seed layers were characterised by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), respectively. ZnO nanorod arrays with different structures and morphological properties were synthesised on the prepared seed layers by hydrothermal treatment. The ZnO nanorods exhibit strong substrate-dependent properties. Combined with the characteristics of ZnO seed layers, the difference of growth mechanisms for each method is proposed by analyzing the nanorod properties on the seed layers.
- ZnO nanorod array,
- seed-layer,
- hydrothermal growth,
- pulsed laser deposition
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