Zinc Oxide Films and Nanowires Synthesized by Sol-Gel and Hydrothermal Methods and their Applications

Abstract:

In this paper, we studied the methods to synthesize good ZnO materials that can be applied in real environment. First we used spin coating method to form a layer of sol-gel driven ZnO, and then a hydrothermal method was used to synthesize nanowires of ZnO on the already obtained ZnO films. Some methods of test, including AFM and SEM, were performed to analyze the different characteristics of the material. Finally, their applications in the fields of TFT and solar cell were studied. We find that the ZnO films and nanowires are good in quality and their applications in TFT and solar cell are satisfactory.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 815)
• Pages: 752-757
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.815.752
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Wei Wei, Chun Fu Zhang, Da Zheng Chen, Rui Gao, Zhi Zhe Wang
• Keywords: Application, Nanowire, Sol-Gel, ZnO Film

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