Manipulation of Crawling Growth for the Formation of Sub-millimeter Long ZnO Nanowalls |
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Authors: | HJFAN MZacharias |
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Affiliation: | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, U.K.... |
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Abstract: | Vapor-phase growth of ZnO nanowires based on gold catalyst is usually accompanied with lateral crawling growth on the substrate surface. We present results from our systematic experiments where the growth temperature and catalyst size are controlled. The data corroborate that it is possible to obtain clean vertical nanowire arrays while avoiding the crawling growth. On the other hand, crawling growth can be manipulated to obtain root-interconnected nanowire arrays, which could be useful for certain applications. Our results also imply that the previously suggested growth mechanism for the wire-on-wall hybridstructure might be incorrect. Finally, we show the formation of sub-millimeter long, straight ZnO nanowalls by combining a gold-catalyzed epitaxial growth of vertical nanowires and their mergence due to a confined crawling growth. These unconventional nanostructures might have unique electric or optical transport properties. |
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Keywords: | Fe2O3 nanowire Thermal stability Structural transformation |
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