Growth and Characterization of Self-Assembled Boron Carbon Nitride Needle-Like Nanostructures

Large-scale highly aligned boron carbon nitride (BCN) needle-like nanostructures were synthesized directly on Si (100) substrates by the novel technique of magnetron sputtering of the boron and graphite targets in a N2+Ar gas mixture at the substrate temperature of 800 °C. XRD reveals that the nanostructures contain an inhomogeneous crystalline structure. The hybridized BCN phases with needle-like nanostructures should now be regarded as semiconductors may be used as electron emitters for field electron emission applications.