Authors: Shangke Pan Tingting Xu Swaminathan Venkatesan Qiquan Qiao
Publish Date: 2012/08/19
Volume: 14, Issue: 9, Pages: 1115-
Abstract
To grow CdSe nanorods directly onto indium tin oxide ITO substrates a ZnO buffer layer composed of nanoparticles with diameter of ~30–40 nm was prepared by spin coating ZnO sol–gel solution onto the ITO substrates CdSe nanorods were then successfully in situ grown onto ITO substrates with diameter of ~30–40 nm and length of ~120–160 nm using solvothermal method in which CdSe·05en en = ethylenediamine acted as solution precursor The in situ synthesized CdSe nanorods were conformed and characterized by atomic force microscope and electron microscopy The mechanism of such in situ CdSe growth was understood as ZnO nanoparticles anchored en onto ITO substrates while en linked CdSe with ZnOThis study was partially supported by NSF CAREER project ECCS0950731 NSF/EPSCoR Program EPSEPSCoR0903804 the State of South Dakota NASA EPSCoR NNX09AP67A USIsrael Binational Science Foundation 2008265 USEgypt Joint Science Technology Funds 913 and South Dakota BoR Competitive Research Grant Program CRGP
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