Journal
PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 866-872Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2007.10.094
Keywords
dielectrophoresis; ZnO nanowires; field-effect transistors (FETs); electrostatic screening effect
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The synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires was achieved by thermal evaporation on a steel alloy substrate. Various material characteristics such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), and Raman scattering analysis indicated that the synthesized ZnO nanowires were single crystalline with a wurtzite hexagonal phase, and were preferentially synthesized in the c-axis direction. In addition, the straightforward and successful alternating current (AC) dielectrophoresis (DEP) method that can be used to align and manipulate ZnO nanowires as well as to fabricate high-performance multiple-channel field-effect transistors (FETs) with a back-gate structure were also investigated. The DEP results indicated that the number of aligned ZnO nanowires increased with the increasing AC voltages. Moreover, we demonstrated that the DEP-prepared multiple ZnO nanowires FETs can manage on-current exceeding -similar to 1 mu A at a low-bias voltage. Our approach to build up the high-current nano-FETs offers substantial opportunities for further practical electronics and photonics device applications. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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