Facile Route to Control over the Morphological Evolution of β-Ga_2O_3 from Nanowires to Nanoflags and to Nanosheets

We report the fabrication of β-Ga_2O_3 nanostructures on Au-coated(0001) sapphire substrate by chemical vapor deposition. The morphologies and structural properties of β-Ga_2O_3 nanostructures were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. Different morphologies including nanowire, nanoflag and nanosheet were controllably synthesized by adjusting the important growth parameters of ambient source contents. It is suggested that the relative ratio of oxygen and gallium contents plays a significant role in determining the morphologies of β-Ga_2O_3 nanostructure.