In this work, Cu/Zn/Sn-based ternary and quaternary chalcogenides inks were synthesized via hot injection and/or from ball-milled powders. The used to fabricate thermoelectric generators (TEGs) based on p-type chalcogenide n-type aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films spin-coating magnetron sputtering, respectively. This work highlights the first-ever attempt in a facile scalable method thi...

Ultrathin phosphor (P)-doped ZnO nanosheets with branched nanowires were controllably synthesized, and the effects of oxygen and phosphor doping on the structural and optical properties were systematically studied. The grown ZnO nanosheet exhibits an ultrathin nanoribbon backbone with one-side-aligned nanoteeth. For the growth of ultrathin ZnO nanosheets, both oxygen flow rate and P doping are ...

In the pursuit of high injection current diode nanodevices, entire one-dimensional (1D) ZnO coaxial nanostructures with p-n homojunctions is one of the ideal structures. In this study, we synthesized entire 1D ZnO-based coaxial homojunction diodes with p-type Ag-doped ZnO (SZO) nanostructure shells covering n-type Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) nanopagoda (NPG) cores by a metal-organic chemical vapor depos...

A Silver (Ag) thin film is introduced as a template and doping source for vertically aligned p–type ZnO nanorods. ZnO nanorods were grown using an ammonium hydroxide based hydrothermal process. During the hydrothermal process, the Ag thin film was dissolved to generate Ag ions in the solution. The Ag ions can contribute to doping in the wurzite structure of ZnO and the (111) grain of Ag thin fi...

ZnO nanoarchitecture-based nanoand microdevices came into the focus due to their multifunctional operation. In this work, we summarize cost-effective procedures to grow ZnO nanoand microstructures, namely hydrothermal growth and electrochemical deposition. These techniques allow the controllable growth of ZnO nanoand microarchitectures at relatively low temperatures, below 100 ◦C, and do not re...

UNLABELLED Undoped ZnO, Ce-doped ZnO, and (Li, Ce)-codoped ZnO nanophosphors were prepared by a sol-gel process. The effects of the additional doping with Li ions on the crystal structure, particle morphology, and luminescence properties of Ce-doped ZnO were investigated by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance spectro...

The quartz/Al-ZnO film/nanostructured Al-ZnO/CdSe/Cu2O extremely thin absorber solar cell has been successfully realized. The Al-doped ZnO one-dimensional nanostructures on quartz templates covered by a sputtering Al-doped ZnO film was used as the n-type electrode. A 19- to 35-nm-thin layer of CdSe absorber was deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering, coating the ZnO nanostructures. T...

Band gap change in doped ZnO is an observed phenomenon that is very interesting from the fundamental point of view. This work is focused on the preparation of pure and single phase nanostructured ZnO and Cu as well as Mn-doped ZnO for the purpose of understanding the mechanisms of band gap narrowing in the materials. ZnO, Zn0.99Cu0.01O and Zn0.99Mn0.01O materials were prepared using a wet chemi...

Ni doped ZnO (Zn1 xNixO) thin films were grown on quartz substrates via magnetron sputtering deposition process with the Ni concentrations of 5, 10 and 20 at.% in the films. The effects of Ni doping level and post annealing on the structural and magnetic properties of Zn1 xNixO films were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), alternating gradient magnetometer (AGM) and photoluminesc...

in this study un-doped and eu-doped zno nanorods and microrads were fabricated by chemical vapor deposition (cvd) method. the effects of annealing, synthesis temperature and structure on structural and photoluminescence properties of eu-doped zno samples were studied in detail. prepared samples were characterized using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), particle size a...