Combining resistive switching and magnetoresistance in a system exhibits great potential for application in multibit nonvolatile data storage. It is in significance and difficulty to seek a material with resistances that can be stably switched at different resistance states modulated by an electrical field and a magnetic field. In this paper, we propose a novel electrode/ZnO/ZnO-Co/electrode de...

ZnO buffer layer Silicon substrates with (100) orientation were coated with a ZnO buffer layer in order to initiate ZnO nanowire growth and to ensure c-axis alignment. No attempt was made to remove the substrate native oxide layer in any case. Firstly a ZnO seed layer is deposited by drop coating a 5 mM solution of zinc acetate in absolute ethanol [1]. 3.5 μl of this solution is applied per cm ...

Here, a new method is demonstrated that uses sideways pulsed laser deposition to deliberately bend nanowires into a desired shape after growth and fabricate arc-shaped composite nanowire arrays of a wide range of nanomaterials. The starting nanowires can be ZnO, but the materials to be deposited can be metallic, semiconductor, or ceramic depending on the application. This method provides a gene...

The introduction of ferromagnetic order in ZnO results in a transparent piezoelectric ferromagnet and further expands its already wide range of applications into the emerging field of spintronics. Through an analysis of density functional calculations we determine the nature of magnetic interactions for transition metals doped ZnO and develop a physical picture based on hybridization, superexch...

A high-yield solution-processed ultrathin (<10 nm) trigonal tellurium (t-Te) nanowire (NW) is introduced as a new class of piezoelectric nanomaterial with a six-fold higher piezoelectric constant compared to conventional ZnO NWs for a high-volume power-density nanogenerator (NG). While determining the energy-harvesting principle in a NG consisting of t-Te NW, it is theoretically and experimenta...

An experiment method for characterizing piezoelectric film, which is deposited on a substrate plate to form a thickness-shear wave High-overmode Bulk Acoustic Resonator (HBAR), will be presented in this paper. Based on the parallel and series resonant frequency spectra of the HBAR, the electromechanical coupling factor of the piezoelectric film operating in thickness-shear mode can be evaluated...

Implantable nanogenerators are rapidly advanced recently as a promising concept for harvesting biomechanical energy in vivo. This review article presents an overview of the most current progress of implantable piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) and triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with a focus on materials selection, engineering, and assembly. The evolution of the PENG materials is discussed ...

The present work reports the influence of zinc oxide (ZnO) seed layer annealing temperature on structural, optical and electrical properties of ZnO nanorod arrays, synthesized by hydrothermal method assisted by microwave radiation, to be used as UV sensors. The ZnO seed layer was produced using the spin-coating method and several annealing temperatures, ranging from 100 to 500 °C, have been tes...

・ Abstract – Characteristics of Zinc oxide (ZnO) piezoelectric thin films have been investigated for thin film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators with relationship to bottom electrodes. A Metal/ZnO/Metal/SiO2 membrane structure, which has secondary harmonics, was adopted for the BAW resonators. The ZnO thin films, showed clear c-axis orientation, were made by rf sputtering on bottom electrodes...

Novel devices ranging from bio magnetic field sensors to energy harvesting nano machines utilize the piezotronic effect. For optimal function, understanding interaction of electrical and strain phenomena within semiconductor crystal is necessary. Here, studies a model system are presented, consisting ZnO microrod coated by thin layer gold, which forms Schottky contact with piezoelectric materia...