Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 35, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/35/355201
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Funding
- Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [91027021, 91233110]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB933500, 2012CB932400, 2011CB808400, 2010CB934500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51173124, 51172151]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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Due to their extraordinary properties, single-crystalline organic nanowires (NWs) are important building blocks for future low-cost and efficient nano-optoelectronic devices. However, it remains a critical challenge to assemble organic NWs rationally in an orientation-, dimensionality- and location-controlled manner. Herein, we demonstrate a feasible method for aligned growth of single-crystalline copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) NW arrays with high density, large-area uniformity and perfect crossed alignment by using Au film as a template. The growth process was investigated in detail. The Au film was found to have a critical function in the aligned growth of NWs, but may only serve as the active site for NW nucleation because of the large surface energy, as well as direct the subsequent aligned growth. The as-prepared NWs were then transferred to construct single NW-based photoconductive devices, which demonstrated excellent photoresponse properties with robust stability and reproducibility; the device showed a high switching ratio of similar to 180, a fast response speed of similar to 100 ms and could stand continuous operation up to 2 h. Importantly, this strategy can be extended to other organic molecules for their synthesis of NW arrays, revealing great potential for use in the construction of large-scale high-performance functional nano-optoelectronic devices.
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