Control of Morphology and Growth Direction of Gallium Nitride Nanostructures

2003 ◽  
Vol 789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Yong Bae ◽  
Hee Won Seo ◽  
Jeunghee Park

ABSTRACTVarious shaped single-crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) nanostructures were produced by chemical vapor deposition method in the temperature range of 900–1200 °C. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction, electron energy loss spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and photoluminescence were used to investigate the structural and optical properties of the GaN nanostructures. We controlled the GaN nanostructures by the catalyst and temperature. The cylindrical and triangular shaped nanowires were synthesized using iron and gold nanoparticles as catalysts, respectively, in the temperature range of 900 – 1000 °C. We synthesized the nanobelts, nanosaws, and porous nanowires using gallium source/ boron oxide mixture. When the temperature of source was 1100 °C, the nanobelts having a triangle tip were grown. At the temperature higher up to 1200 °C the nanosaws and porous nanowires were formed with a large scale. The cylindrical nanowires have random growth direction, while the triangular nanowires have uniform growth direction [010]. The growth direction of the nanobelts is perpendicular to the [010]. Interestingly, the nanosaws and porous nanowires exhibit the same growth direction [011]. The shift of Raman, XRD, and PL bands from those of bulk was correlated with the strains of the GaN nanostructures.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Nadia M. Jassim

Highly pure and crystalline CdSxSe1 -x nanostructures have been successfully synthesized via Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) method, changing the components of x, in order to adjust the band gap of materials, and the relationship with the lattice constant. Using X-ray Diffraction (XRD) to characterize the phase structures and elemental compositions of the samples, and using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to observe the surface morphology of CdSxSe1 -x nanomaterials and confirm the VLS growth mechanism. Using the High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) and Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED) to analyze the crystal structure and the growth direction of the materials


2012 ◽  
Vol 490-495 ◽  
pp. 3211-3214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Shan Chen ◽  
Cun Jing Wang

Synthesis reactions were carried out by chemical vapor deposition using iron catalyst supported on aluminum hydroxide at 400 °C and 420 °C, in the presence of argon as carrier gas and acetylene as carbon source. The aluminum hydroxide support was separated by refluxing the samples in 40% NaOH solution for 2 h and 36% HCl solution for 24 h, respectively. The samples were characterized by field-emission scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The results show that carbon nanotubes were the main products at 420 °C, while large scale high purity nano onion-like fullerenes encapsulating Fe3C, with almost uniform sizes ranging from 10-50 nm, were obtained at the low temperature of 400 °C.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Yung Yang ◽  
Shu-Meng Yang ◽  
Yu-Yang Chen ◽  
Kuo-Chang Lu

Abstract In this study, self-catalyzed β-FeSi2 nanowires, having been wanted but seldom achieved in a furnace, were synthesized via chemical vapor deposition method where the fabrication of β-FeSi2 nanowires occurred on Si (100) substrates through the decomposition of the single-source precursor of anhydrous FeCl3 powders at 750–950 °C. We carefully varied temperatures, duration time, and the flow rates of carrier gases to control and investigate the growth of the nanowires. The morphology of the β-FeSi2 nanowires was observed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), while the structure of them was analyzed with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The growth mechanism has been proposed and the physical properties of the iron disilicide nanowires were measured as well. In terms of the magnetization of β-FeSi2, nanowires were found to be different from bulk and thin film; additionally, longer β-FeSi2 nanowires possessed better magnetic properties, showing the room-temperature ferromagnetic behavior. Field emission measurements demonstrate that β-FeSi2 nanowires can be applied in field emitters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 773-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguang Yang ◽  
Chaosheng Zhu ◽  
Zhiqiang Hou ◽  
Peng Peng

WO3 is an essential material for energy storage and catalytical technology, the oxygen vacancies level will play an essential role in its potential application. In this paper, porous tungsten oxide (WO3–x) with various oxygen contents was quickly fabricated by a microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. A detailed characterization of structure and morphology features with the plasma handling process was recorded by X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, respectively. The etching mechanism of porous WO3–x under H2 plasma was discussed based on the systemically characterization. These results will help us to design the active sites or structure in the metal oxide materials.


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. RAJKUMAR ◽  
M. PRABHU ◽  
K. RAMACHANDRAN

A novel one-step method to synthesize large-scale uniform dumbbell-shaped ZnO nanorods is presented here. The structural morphology was investigated by using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy analyses. The prepared dumbbells with diameter of 300 nm and length of 1.5 μm possess hexagonal structure with preferable [001] growth direction. The UV–vis absorption spectra show blueshift for smaller nanoparticles and redshift for bigger dumbbell-shaped ZnO nanorods.


2013 ◽  
Vol 662 ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Hai Yan Wang ◽  
Li Ping Kang ◽  
Yong Qiang Wang ◽  
Zi Jiong Li

Nonaligned and curly β-SiC nanowires (nw-SiC) were grown on porous silicon array (PSA) by a chemical vapor deposition method with nickel as the catalyst. The morphology, structure and the composition of the nw-SiC/PSA and the SiC-SiO2core-shell fibers which is the semi-product were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Based on the experimental results a possible growth mechanism of nw-SiC was explained. Two broad photoluminescence peaks located around ~409 and ~494 nm were observed in nw-SiC/PSA in the PL measurement when utilizing 300 nm ultraviolet fluorescent light excited at room temperature. The excellent luminescent performances are ascribed to the quantum confinement effects in nw-SiC. The optical merits of nw-SiC/PSA made it a promising material in the fields of ultraviolet-blue emitting devices.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Shibo Li ◽  
Shujun Hu ◽  
Yang Zhou

Ti3C2Tx MXene, a new 2D nanosheet material, is expected to be an attractive reinforcement of metal matrix composites because its surfaces are terminated with Ti and/or functional groups of –OH, –O, and –F which improve its wettability with metals. Thus, new Ti3C2Tx/Al composites with strong interfaces and novel properties are desired. To prepare such composites, the chemical stability of Ti3C2Tx with Al at high temperatures should be investigated. This work first reports on the chemical stability of Ti3C2Tx MXene with Al in the temperature range 500–700 °C. Ti3C2Tx is thermally stable with Al at temperatures below 700 °C, but it reacts with Al to form Al3Ti and TiC at temperatures above 700 °C. The chemical stability and microstructure of the Ti3C2Tx/Al samples were investigated by differential scanning calorimeter, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 2538-2544
Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Hieu ◽  
Nguyen Hoang Hai ◽  
Mai Anh Tuan

Tin oxides nanowires were prepared by chemical vapor deposition using shadow mask. X-ray diffraction indicated that the products were tetragonal having crystalline structure with lattice constants a = 0.474 nm and c = 0.318 nm. The high-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed that inter planar spacing is 0.25 nm. The results chemical mapping in scanning transmission electron microscopy so that the two elements of Oxygen and Tin are distributed very homogeneously in nanowires and exhibit no apparent elements separation. A bottom-up mechanism for SnO2 growth process has been proposed to explain the morphology of SnO2 nanowires.


2002 ◽  
Vol 722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunming Jin ◽  
Ashutosh Tiwari ◽  
A. Kvit ◽  
J. Narayan

AbstractEpitaxial ZnO films have been grown on Si(111) substrates by employing a AlN buffer layer during a pulsed laser-deposition process. The epitaxial structure of AlN on Si(111) substrate provides a template for ZnO growth. The resultant films are evaluated by transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and electrical measurements. The results of x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy on these films clearly show the epitaxial growth of ZnO films with an orientational relationship of ZnO[0001]||Aln[0001]||Si[111] along the growth direction and ZnO[2 11 0]||AlN[2 11 0]||Si[0 11] along the in-plane direction. High electrical conductivity (103 S/m at 300 K) and a linear I-V characteristics make these epitaxial films ideal for microelectronic, optoelectronic, and transparent conducting oxide applications.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1393-1397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzhen Yang ◽  
Xuguang Liu ◽  
Bingshe Xu

Fe-encapsulating carbon nano onionlike fullerenes (NOLFs) were obtained by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using heavy oil residue as carbon source and ferrocene as catalyst precursor in an argon flow of 150 mL/min at 900 °C for 30 min. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), x-ray diffraction (XRD), and Raman spectroscopy were used to characterize morphology and microstructure of the products. The results show that Fe-encapsulating NOLFs collected at the outlet zone of quartz tube had core/shell structures with sizes ranging from 3 to 6 nm and outer shells composed of poorly crystallized graphitic layers. Their growth followed particle self-assembling growth mechanism, and all atoms in the graphite sheets primarily arose from Fe-carbide nanoparticles.


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