Enhanced photoluminescence and field-emission behavior of vertically well aligned arrays of In-doped ZnO Nanowires |
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Authors: | Ahmad Mashkoor Sun Hongyu Zhu Jing |
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Affiliation: | Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, The state key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Laboratory of Advanced Material, China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. |
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Abstract: | Vertically oriented well-aligned Indium doped ZnO nanowires (NWs) have been successfully synthesized on Au-coated Zn substrate by controlled thermal evaporation. The effect of indium dopant on the optical and field-emission properties of these well-aligned ZnO NWs is investigated. The doped NWs are found to be single crystals grown along the c-axis. The composition of the doped NWs is confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray photospectroscopy (XPS). The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of doped NWs having a blue-shift in the UV region show a prominent tuning in the optical band gap, without any significant peak relating to intrinsic defects. The turn-on field of the field emission is found to be ~2.4 V μm(-1) and an emission current density of 1.13 mA cm(-2) under the field of 5.9 V μm(-1). The field enhancement factor β is estimated to be 9490 ± 2, which is much higher than that of any previous report. Furthermore, the doped NWs exhibit good emission current stability with a variation of less than 5% during a 200 s under a field of 5.9 V μm(-1). The superior field emission properties are attributed to the good alignment, high aspect ratio, and better crystallinity of In-doped NWs. |
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