Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 5, Issue 12, Pages 2817-2832Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma5122817
Keywords
zinc oxide; nanorods; porous silicon; thermal evaporation; vapor-liquid-solid
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- NANO-ElecTronics and NANO-SciTech Centre, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis
- Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE)
- MJIIT
- UTM
- MOHE
- MOSTI
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The formation of high-density zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on porous silicon (PS) substrates at growth temperatures of 600-1000 degrees C by a simple thermal evaporation of zinc (Zn) powder in the presence of oxygen (O-2) gas was systematically investigated. The high-density growth of ZnO nanorods with (0002) orientation over a large area was attributed to the rough surface of PS, which provides appropriate planes to promote deposition of Zn or ZnOx seeds as nucleation sites for the subsequent growth of ZnO nanorods. The geometrical morphologies of ZnO nanorods are determined by the ZnOx seed structures, i.e., cluster or layer structures. The flower-like hexagonal-faceted ZnO nanorods grown at 600 degrees C seem to be generated from the sparsely distributed ZnOx nanoclusters. Vertically aligned hexagonal-faceted ZnO nanorods grown at 800 degrees C may be inferred from the formation of dense arrays of ZnOx clusters. The formation of disordered ZnO nanorods formed at 1000 degrees C may due to the formation of a ZnOx seed layer. The growth mechanism involved has been described by a combination of self-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) and vapor-solid (VS) mechanism. The results suggest that for a more precise study on the growth of ZnO nanostructures involving the introduction of seeds, the initial seed structures must be taken into account given their significant effects.
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