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Shape engineering driven by selective growth of SnO2 on doped Ga2O3 nanowires
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Alonso-Orts, Manuel, Sánchez, Ana M., Hindmarsh, Steven, López, Iñaki , Nogales, Emilio , Piqueras, Javier and Méndez, Bianchi (2017) Shape engineering driven by selective growth of SnO2 on doped Ga2O3 nanowires. Nano Letters, 17 (1). pp. 515-522. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04189
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04189
Abstract
Tailoring the shape of complex nanostructures requires control of the growth process. In this work, we report on the selective growth of nanostructured tin oxide on gallium oxide nanowires leading to the formation of SnO2/Ga2O3 complex nanostructures. Ga2O3 nanowires decorated with either crossing SnO2 nanowires or SnO2 particles have been obtained in a single step treatment, by thermal evaporation. The reason for this dual behavior is related to the growth direction of trunk Ga2O3 nanowires. Ga2O3 nanowires grown along the [001] direction favor the formation of crossing SnO2 nanowires. Alternatively, SnO2 forms rhombohedral particles on [110] Ga2O3 nanowires leading to skewer-like structures. These complex oxide structures were grown by a catalyst-free vapor-solid process. When pure Ga and tin oxide were used as source materials and compacted powders of Ga2O3 acted as substrates, [110] Ga2O3 nanowires grow preferentially. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy analysis reveals epitaxial relationship lattice matching between the Ga2O3 axis and SnO2 particles, forming skewer-like structures. The addition of chromium oxide to the source materials modifies the growth direction of the trunk Ga2O3 nanowires, growing along the [001], with crossing SnO2 wires. The SnO2/Ga2O3 junctions does not meet the lattice matching condition, forming a grain boundary. The electronic and optical properties have been studied by XPS and CL with high spatial resolution, enabling us to get both local chemical and electronic information of the surface in both type of structures. The results will allow tuning optical and electronic properties of oxide complex nanostructures locally as a function of the orientation. In particular, we report a dependence of the visible CL emission of SnO2 on its particular shape. Orange emission dominates in SnO2/Ga2O3 crossing wires while green-blue emission is observed in SnO2 particles attached to Ga2O3 trunks. The results show that the Ga2O3-SnO2 system appears to be a benchmark for shape engineering to get architectures involving nanowires via the control of the growth direction of the nanowires.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nanowires, Nanostructures, Cathodoluminescence , Gallium | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nano Letters | ||||||||
| Publisher: | ACS | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1530-6984 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 11 January 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 515-522 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04189 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO), Spain. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | CSD2009-00013, MAT2012--31959, MAT2015-65274-R-FEDER (MINECO), PRX14/00134 (MEC) |
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