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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"ZnO nanowires"”.
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DLC Thin Film Assisted ZnO Nanowires Growth
… fabricated dense, uniform, vertically aligned ZnO NWs on top of DLC films. The NWs' length, diameter and separation distance were controllable by fine tuning the growth parameters and changing the DLC film deposition temperature. HRTEM examination confirms the NWs were single crystalline with …
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Hydrothermal synthesis of Al-doped ZnO nanowires and their application for photovoltaic devices
… resulting in recent interest in semiconducting nanowires for electronic, photonic, and energy applications. Along with nanowires, quantum dots are solution-processable nanocrystals with tunable band gap energies as a function of their size. Based on all of these promising properties that …
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Hybrid Carbon Fiber/ZnO Nanowires Polymeric Composite for Stuctural and Energy Harvesting Applications
… structural performance. In this dissertation, ZnO nanowires (NWs) were grown on the surface of carbon fibers utilizing low temperature hydrothermal synthesis technique prior to the hybrid composite fabrication. The scanning electron microscopy revealed that the ZnO nanowires were grown …
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Synthesis and surface chemistry of zinc oxide nanowires for chemical sensor applications
… synthesis and functionalization of high quality ZnO nanowires for highly sensitive and selective p-nitrophenol vapor sensor. High-quality ZnO nanowires were synthesized through a vapor-liquid-solid process in a customized chemical vapor deposition furnace. Scanning electron microscopy, …
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Nanowire Zinc Oxide MOSFET Pressure Sensor
… pressure sensor using self-assembly Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanowires on top of the gate of a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) is presented. Self-assembly ZnO nanowires were fabricated with a diameter of 80 nm and 800 nm height (80:8 aspect ratio) on top of the gate of the …
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Low Temperature Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures
… The two contacts proposed are Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanowires and Bismuth Telluride (BiTe) nanowires, and the organic light absorber is a semiconductor porphyrin. To further develop and design this device, the two contact materials need to be characterized and further developed. This manuscript …
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Fabrication and robustness testing of superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces for enhanced jumping condensation
… were also developed, and scalable zinc oxide nanowires (ZnO) and copper oxide nanoblades (CuO) were used. CuO nanoblades were etched into copper, and ZnO nanowires were grown on silicon, low carbon steel, titanium, stainless steel, and electroplated nickel. Hydrophobic coatings tested on these …
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Heterogeneous Metallurgical Patterning of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures
… networks composed of CuO nanofilm and ZnO nanowires have been successfully fabricated. The dezincification induced by metallographic etching on Cu70Zn30 polycrystalline alloy surface created heterogeneous networks composed of individual Cu-rich micrograin surfaces and surrounding grain …
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THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING IN DISPLAYS
… thermoelectric materials, PEDOT:PSS-based and ${ZnON}$, used for the present application is presented. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first exploration of the thermoelectric parameters of ${ZnON}$ reported here. Thin-film deposition of these materials was performed via both solution- …
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Towards a Self-Powered Structural Health Monitoring Smart Tire
… existing fabrication process to grow arrays of ZnO nanowires in carbon fiber reinforced polymer was used in this work. Comparison of power generation from a composite beam with ZnO nanowires with a composite beam without ZnO nanowires demonstrated the power generation capabilities of the …
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Investigation of Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring
… laminates embedded with layers of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires. ZnO nanowire embedded composites have the potential to sense and actuate giving the potential for these smart composites to serve the function of being load bearing structures and monitoring the integrity of the structure. This work …
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Optical Characterization of Electrochemically Self-Assembled Compound Semiconductor Nanowires
Semiconductor nanowires have attracted considerable attention as possible source for lasers and optical storage media. We report the fabrication and optical characterization of ZnO and CdS nanowires. The former are produced by electrochemical deposition of Zn inside nanoporous alumina films …
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Development of New Cathodic Interlayers with Nano-Architectures for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
… the polysulfides, brush-like, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires based interlayers were prepared ex-situ using a wet chemistry method and were coupled with a sulfur/multi-walled carbon nanotube (S/MWCNT) composite cathode. The cell with this configuration showed a good cycle life at a high current …
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Nanostructured architectures for colloidal quantum dot solar cells
… transport. Vertically aligned arrays of ZnO nanowires can decouple absorption and collection: The nanowires penetrate into the QD film and serve as highly-conductive channels for extracting photogenerated electrons from deep within the film. After optimizing the nanowire growth and device …
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Template-based control for bottom-up nanostructures - multilayer block copolymer graphoepitaxy and masked ZnO nanowire growth
… and morphology of two bottom-up nanostructures, ZnO nanowires (NWs) and cylinder-forming block copolymers (BCPs). Despite material differences, we highlight their analogous nature by applying similar engineering principles to both - structure and spatial design, systematic energy manipulation, …
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Zinc oxide nanowire field effect transistors for sensor applications
… of tunable physio-chemical properties make ZnO nanowires a promising candidate for functional device applications. Although bottom-up grown nanowires are producible in volume, their high-throughput device integration requires control over dimensions and, more importantly, of precise …
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ZnO Nanostructures: Low-Temperature Synthesis, Characterisation, Their Potential Application as Gene-Delivery Tools
Among metal oxide nanomaterials, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures are one of the most important nanomaterials in today’s nanotechnology research. Over the past several decades, ZnO nanostructures have been extensively investigated for their extraordinary physical and chemical characteristics and …
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Transport imaging in the one dimensional limit
… luminescence from single bottom-up GaN and ZnO nanowires deposited by metal initiated metal-organic CVD on Au and SiO2 substrates is imaged. CL spectra for GaN and ZnO, with peak intensities at 3.27 and 3.29 eV, are characterized. Finally, several suggestions for further research are offered …
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Hydrothermal synthesis of zinc oxide nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires with excellent crystal quality can be grown vertically aligned from a substrate using hydrothermal synthesis, a low-cost, scalable process that is compatible with many semiconductor processing techniques. However, precise control over nanowire array dimensions such as …
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