Facile, wafer-scale compatible growth of ZnO nanowires via chemical bath deposition: assessment of zinc ion contribution and other limiting factors.

ABSTRACT: ZnO is a highly promising, multifunctional nanomaterial having various versatile applications in the fields of sensors, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, photocatalysts and water purification. However, the real challenge lies in producing large scale, well-aligned, highly reproducible ZnO nanowires (NWs) using low cost techniques. This large-scale production of ZnO NWs has stunted the development and practical usage of these NWs in fast rising fields such as photocatalysis or in photovoltaic applications. The present article shows an effective, simple approach for the uniform, aligned growth of ZnO NWs on entire silicon wafers (sizes 3 or 4 inches), using a low-temperature Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique. In addition to this, a systematic study of the substrate size dependent growth

SUBMITTER: Huang YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9419593 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature