Fabrication and characterization of ZnO and ZnMgO nanostructures grown using a ZnO/ZnMgO compound as the source material |
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Authors: | Ramin Yousefi Burhanuddin Kamaluddin |
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Affiliation: | aSolid State Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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Abstract: | ZnO and ZnMgO nanostructures were synthesized on Si (1 0 0) substrates with the assistance of a gold catalyst, using a thermal evaporation method with a ZnO/ZnMgO compound as the source material. The substrates were placed in different temperature zones. ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies and different compounds were obtained at different substrate temperatures. Nanostructures with nanorods and nanosheets morphologies formed in the low and high temperature zones, respectively. The nanorods grown in the low temperature zone had two phases, hexagonal and cubic. Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) results showed that the nanorods with a cubic shape contained more Mg in comparison to the nanowires with a hexagonal shape. We found that the substrate temperature and the gold catalyst were two key factors for the doping of Mg and the formation of nanostructures with different morphologies. Room temperature photoluminescence spectroscopy showed a blue-shift for the nanostructures with the nanorods morphology. This shift could be attributed to Mg effects that were detected in the nanorods. |
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Keywords: | ZnO and ZnMgO nanorods ZnO nanosheets Thin Zn1− xMgxO buffer layer Sintering Photoluminescence spectroscopy |
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