Polar surface dominated octagonal Sn doped ZnO nanowires and their room-temperature photoluminance properties

  • Hong Bo Wang
  • , Fei Ma
  • , Liang Zhou
  • , Yi Qin
  • , Yang Shuo Sun
  • , Yi Ku Xu
  • , Yong Nan Chen
  • , Ke Wei Xu
  • , Da Yan Ma

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Abstract

Polar surface dominated Sn doped ZnO nanowires (NWs) with an octagonal shaped cross section have been fabricated by chemical vapor deposition method. The NWs grew along [011¯0] direction, and were wrapped by non-polar surface (21¯1¯0) and polar surfaces (0001) and (101¯1). Planar defects in (0001) plane were formed in the middle of the doped NWs, and strain concentration occurred around the planar defects, which might lower the energy in the wurtzite lattice and thus maintain polar surface dominated configuration. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Raman tests reveal that the concentration of Oxygen vacancy (V O ) was significantly lowered after doping, which led to the reduced deep level emission (DLE).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)265-270
Number of pages6
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume476
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2019

Keywords

  • Microstructure
  • Photoluminance
  • Polar surface
  • Sn-doped ZnO Nanowires

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