Abstract
Transparent zinc oxide nanowires orderly decorated with silver nanoparticles/nanorods were synthesized by thermal evaporating of metallic zinc powders at 550 °C by using Ag nanoparticles-coated silicon as the substrate. As-obtained ZnO nanowires are single crystals with the preferred growth directions along the [0001] plane, with Ag nanoparticles/nanorods orderly attached to the whole length of the nanowires. Single ZnO-nanowire-based devices were fabricated, and it is revealed that as-synthesized Ag-nanoparticle/ nanorods-decorated ZnO nanowires are transparent conductors with resistivities down to 6.8 × 10-4 Ωcm and failure-current density up to 4.5 × 107 A/cm2 because of the single-crystalline metallic structure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 21088-21093 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry C |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue number | 49 |
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| Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |