Piezoelectric properties of template-free electrochemically grown ZnO nanorod arrays

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 356, Issue , 2015, Pages 1214-1220

  Tamvakos, Dimitrios ^a   Lepadatu, Serban ^b,c   Antohe, Vlad Andrei ^d   Tamvakos, Athanasios ^a   Weaver, Paul M ^b   Piraux, Luc ^d   Cain, Markys G ^b   Pullini, Daniele ^a  

^a CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effective piezoelectric coefficient (d 33 ); Enhanced piezoelectricity; Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM); Template free and seeding less electrodeposition (ECD); Zinc oxide (ZnO) vertically aligned nanorods (NRs)

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANORODS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REDUCTION; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

ONE-STEP PREPARATION METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTY; PIEZOELECTRIC RESPONSE; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; SHORT-TIME SYNTHESIS; TEMPLATE-FREE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84948705883     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.08.187     Document Type: Article

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