Probing surface band bending of surface-engineered metal oxide nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9366-9372

  Chen, Cheng Ying ^a,b   Retamal, Jose Ramon Duran ^a   Wu, I Wen ^a   Lien, Der Hsien ^b   Chen, Ming Wei ^a   Ding, Yong ^b   Chueh, Yu Lun ^c   Wu, Chih I ^a   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

metal oxide; nanowire; oxygen vacancy; Schottky junction; surface band bending; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED OXYGEN; ALL METAL; AU NANOPARTICLE; DEVICE DESIGN; METAL OXIDE NANOWIRES; METAL OXIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; SCHOTTKY JUNCTIONS; SURFACE BAND BENDING; SURFACE ENGINEERING; ZNO; ZNO NANOWIRES; ZNO NWS;

ADSORBATES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GOLD; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN VACANCIES; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

HEAT TREATMENT;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84870442472     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn205097e     Document Type: Article

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