Optical micro/nano-spherical cavities can be designed to confine light by generating resonances in whispering gallery modes (WGM) and then couple them into the substrate through leaky modes, which can be potentially used in thin film solar cells for absorption enhancements. In this work, the transparent ZnO electrodes in a hollow nanosphere (HNS) structure were proposed as WGM resonators to tra...

Resistance switching random access memory (RRAM) has drawn considerable attention for the application in nonvolatile memory element in semiconductor memory devices. A ZnO thin film now assumed to be useful for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell. In this paper we provide a framework to its use as a switching ON or OFF in DRAM cell. In this type of memory cell the ZnO thin film has a lot of...

Mn-doped nanocrystalline ZnO particles have been successfully synthesized at low temperature (80 ̊C) by the coprecipitation method using zinc sulfatehepta hydrate and NaOH. The structural and magnetic properties have been characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Energy dispersive x-ray, vibrating sample magnetometer and electron spin resonance. XRD measurements revealed that the sample posse...

ZnO and Mn-ZnO nano powders were prepared by the sol-gel auto combustion method. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive analysis of X-ray (EDX) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Structural and morphological properties of nano particles were investigated and the average crystalline size of ZnO and Mn-doped ZnO was obtained 44 and 51 nm, respectively. ...

・ 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...

Five percent of Fe-doped ZnO (ZnO:Fe) thin films were deposited on Pt/TiO2/SiO2/Si substrates by a spin-coating method. The films were annealed without (ZnO:Fe-0T) and with a pulsed magnetic field of 4 T (ZnO:Fe-4TP) to investigate the magnetic annealing effect on the resistance switching (RS) behavior of the Pt/ZnO:Fe/Pt structures. Compared with the ZnO:Fe-0T film, the ZnO:Fe-4TP film showed ...

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) was recently discovered in magnetic element-doped topological insulators (TIs), which promises low power consumption and high efficiency spintronics and electronics. This discovery broadens the family of Hall sensors. In this paper, AHE sensors based on Cr-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films are studied with two thicknesses (15 and 65 nm). It is found, in b...

Reactively sputtered ZnO thin film gas sensors were fabricated onto Si wafers. The atmosphere dependent electrical response of the ZnO micro arrays was examined. The effects of processing conditions on the properties and sensor performance of ZnO films were investigated. Using AFM, SEM, XRD and WDS, the O2/Ar ratios during sputtering and Al dopant were found to control the property of ZnO films...

ZnO thin films with significantly reduced band gaps were synthesized by doping N and codoping Al and N at 100 C. All the films were synthesized by radiofrequency magnetron sputtering on F-doped tin-oxide-coated glass. We found that codoped ZnO: (Al,N) thin films exhibited significantly enhanced crystallinity compared with ZnO doped solely with N, ZnO:N, at the same growth conditions. Furthermor...