Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/19/195706
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- Singapore National Research Foundation
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Multifunctional single crystalline tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) nanowires with tuned Sn doping levels are synthesized via a vapor transport method. The Sn concentration in the nanowires can reach 6.4 at.% at a synthesis temperature of 840 degrees C, significantly exceeding the Sn solubility in ITO bulks grown at comparable temperatures, which we attribute to the unique feature of the vapor-liquid-solid growth. As a promising transparent conducting oxide nanomaterial, layers of these ITO nanowires exhibit a sheet resistance as low as 6.4 Omega/square and measurements on individual nanowires give a resistivity of 2.4 x 10(-4) Omega cm with an electron density up to 2.6 x 10(20) cm(-3), while the optical transmittance in the visible regime can reach similar to 80%. Under the ultraviolet excitation the ITO nanowire samples emit blue light, which can be ascribed to transitions related to defect levels. Furthermore, a room temperature ultraviolet light emission is observed in these ITO nanowires for the first time, and the exciton-related radiative process is identified by using temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements.
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