Effect of precursor solutions stirring on deep level defects concentration and spatial distribution in low temperature aqueous chemical synthesis of zinc oxide nanorods | Zendy

Hatim Alnoor | Zendy; Chan Oeurn Chey | Zendy; Г. Позина | Zendy; Xianjie Liu | Zendy; Volodymyr Khranovskyy | Zendy; M. Willander | Zendy; Omer Nur | Zendy

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Effect of precursor solutions stirring on deep level defects concentration and spatial distribution in low temperature aqueous chemical synthesis of zinc oxide nanorods

Author(s) -

Hatim Alnoor,

Chan Oeurn Chey,

Г. Позина,

Xianjie Liu,

Volodymyr Khranovskyy,

M. Willander,

Omer Nur

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

aip advances

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421

H-Index - 58

ISSN - 2158-3226

DOI - 10.1063/1.4929981

Subject(s) - nanorod , cathodoluminescence , aqueous solution , zinc , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , materials science , oxide , saturation (graph theory) , analytical chemistry (journal) , photoluminescence , spectral line , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , luminescence , metallurgy , optoelectronics , physics , mathematics , chromatography , combinatorics , astronomy , engineering

Hexagonal c-axis oriented zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods (NRs) with 120-300 nm diameters are synthesized via the low temperature aqueous chemical route at 80 degrees C on silver-coated glass substrates. The influence of varying the precursor solutions stirring durations on the concentration and spatial distributions of deep level defects in ZnO NRs is investigated. Room temperature micro-photoluminesnce (mu-PL) spectra were collected for all samples. Cathodoluminescence (CL) spectra of the as-synthesized NRs reveal a significant change in the intensity ratio of the near band edge emission (NBE) to the deep-level emission (DLE) peaks with increasing stirring durations. This is attributed to the variation in the concentration of the oxygen-deficiency with increasing stirring durations as suggested from the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis. Spatially resolved CL spectra taken along individual NRs revealed that stirring the precursor solutions for relatively short duration (1-3 h), which likely induced high super saturation under thermodynamic equilibrium during the synthesis process, is observed to favor the formation of point defects moving towards the tip of the NRs. In contrary, stirring for longer duration (5-15 h) will induce low super saturation favoring the formation of point defects located at the bottom of the NRs. These findings demonstrate that it is possible to control the concentration and spatial distribution of deep level defects in ZnO NRs by varying the stirring durations of the precursor solutions.

Funding Agencies|Avdanced Functional Materials (AFM) SFO project at Linkoping Univeristy, Sweden

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