Large On-Off Enhancement of Au Nanocatalyst Contacts to ZnO Nanowires with Bulk and Surface Oxygen Modification.

ABSTRACT: Schottky diodes have been a fundamental component of electrical circuits for many decades, and intense research continues to this day on planar materials with increasingly exotic compounds. With the birth of nanotechnology, a paradigm shift occurred with Schottky contacts proving to be essential for enabling nanodevice inventions and increasing their performance by many orders of magnitude, particularly in the fields of piezotronics and piezoelectric energy harvesting. ZnO nanomaterials have proven to be the most popular materials in those devices as they possess high piezoelectric coefficients, high surface sensitivity, and low resistivity due to the high native n-type doping and low hole concentration. ZnO nanowires grown by vapor phase techniques with the aid of a metal catalyst provide

SUBMITTER: Lord AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11955938 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature