Self-Catalyzed Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposited ZnO Nanotetrapods

Abstract:

ZnO in various nanostructures forms have been widely studied for the application such as in solar cells, light emitting diodes, UV sensors and so on. In this paper, we have successfully deposited ZnO nanotetrapods using thermal chemical vapour deposition (TCVD) technique on layer-by-layer ZnO seeded catalyst, with Zn powder and O₂ gas as source materials. We demonstrate that by using double furnace TCVD system, ZnO nanotetrapods can be deposited at lower temperature than the vapour temperature of the Zn powder. In this paper we report the effect of different deposition temperature (450 °C to 600 °C) on the surface morphologies, crystalline structure and optical properties of the ZnO nanotetrapods. FE-SEM micrographs show that the length of the nanotetrapods arms decreases with the increase of the deposition temperature. PL spectra show that the visible emission are very low compared to the UV emission which indicates that the ZnO tetrapod have very low intrinsic defect. The highest UV emission intensity is given by the sample deposited at 500 °C.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 832)
• Pages: 670-674
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.832.670
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Shafinaz Shariffudin, Sukreen Hana Herman, Mohamad Rusop
• Keywords: Deposition Temperature, Photoluminescence Spectra, Surface Morphology, Thermal CVD, ZnO Nanotetrapods

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