General Route to Vertical ZnO Nanowire Arrays Using Textured ZnO Seeds

Lori E. Greene; Matt Law; Dawud H. Tan; Max Montano; Joshua E. Goldberger; Gabor Somorjai; Peidong Yang

doi:10.1021/nl050788p

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A method for growing vertical ZnO nanowire arrays on arbitrary substrates using either gas-phase or solution-phase approaches is presented. A approximately 10 nm-thick layer of textured ZnO nanocrystals with their c axes normal to the substrate is formed by the decomposition of zinc acetate at 200-350 degrees C to provide nucleation sites for vertical nanowire growth. The nanorod arrays made in solution have a rod diameter, length, density, and orientation desirable for use in ordered nanorod-polymer solar cells.

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