Growth of high-density zinc oxide nanorods on porous silicon by thermal evaporation

Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2817-2832

  Rusli, Nurul Izni ^a,b   Tanikawa, Masahiro ^c   Mahmood, Mohamad Rusop ^d   Yasui, Kanji ^c   Hashim, Abdul Manaf ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^c NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^e MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Nanorods; Porous silicon; Thermal evaporation; Vapor liquid solid; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH MECHANISMS; NUCLEATION SITES; VAPOR SOLID MECHANISM; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZINC OXIDE NANORODS; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

LIQUIDS; NANORODS; POROUS SILICON; THERMAL EVAPORATION; VAPORS; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84876461426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma5122817     Document Type: Article

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