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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 256, Issue 1, Pages 329-334Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.08.025
Keywords
ZnO and ZnMgO nanorods; ZnO nanosheets; Thin Zn1-xMgxO buffer layer; Sintering; Photoluminescence spectroscopy
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- University of Malaya [PS 199/2008 B]
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ZnO and ZnMgO nanostructures were synthesized on Si (100) substrates with the assistance of a gold catalyst, using a thermal evaporation method with a ZnO/ZnMgO compound as the source material. The substrates were placed in different temperature zones. ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies and different compounds were obtained at different substrate temperatures. Nanostructures with nanorods and nanosheets morphologies formed in the low and high temperature zones, respectively. The nanorods grown in the low temperature zone had two phases, hexagonal and cubic. Energy dispersive Xray (EDX) results showed that the nanorods with a cubic shape contained more Mg in comparison to the nanowires with a hexagonal shape. We found that the substrate temperature and the gold catalyst were two key factors for the doping of Mg and the formation of nanostructures with different morphologies. Room temperature photoluminescence spectroscopy showed a blue-shift for the nanostructures with the nanorods morphology. This shift could be attributed to Mg effects that were detected in the nanorods. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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