By using low cost, low-temperature hydrothermal approach and spin-coating technique, well-aligned ZnO nanorods have been successfully prepared on ITO substrates. The ITO substrate was pre-patterned with ZnO particles as a seed layer for the subsequent nucleic hybridization. The intuitionistic crystallinity of oriented ZnO nanorod array was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), respectively. It is shown that the preferred orientation growth of the wurtzite structure along (002) plane is easily obtained with the approach. The size of the ZnO nanorods has been found to be dramatically dependent on the concentration of zinc content in the solution.

Date Published: 11 March 2008
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 6984, Sixth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 698421 (11 March 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.792013

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6984:
Sixth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications
Wenzhong Shen; Junhao Chu, Editor(s)