High-yield TiO2 nanowire synthesis and single nanowire field-effect transistor fabrication
Author(s) -
Jeong Min Baik,
Myung Hwa Kim,
Christopher Larson,
Xihong Chen,
Shujing Guo,
Alec M. Wodtke,
Martin Moskovits
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.2949086
Subject(s) - nanowire , materials science , chemical vapor deposition , field effect transistor , rutile , nanotechnology , semiconductor , fabrication , vapor–liquid–solid method , layer (electronics) , transistor , atomic layer deposition , single crystal , optoelectronics , chemical engineering , chemistry , crystallography , medicine , alternative medicine , voltage , pathology , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
We report a facile method for synthesizing single-crystal rutile TiO 2 nanowires using atmospheric-pressure, chemical vapor deposition with Ti and TiO as precursors. The synthesis is found to depend critically on the predeposition of a layer of metallic Ti on the Ni catalysts layer. The omission of this step seems previously to have impeded the efficient synthesis of titania nanowires. Single-nanowire field-effect transistors showed the TiO2 nanowires to be n -type semiconductors with conductance activation energy of ∼58 meV.open242
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