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Characterization of Co-existing In2O3-ZnO Nanostructures

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In this study, we report the simultaneous growth of both In2O3 and ZnO nanostructures on the same substrate when attempting to achieve heavily Zn-doped In2O3 nanowires with Zn. These oxide structures were synthesized by vapor–liquid–solid growth. Scanning electron microscope imaging and transmission electron microscopy shows the presence of nanostructures with different morphologies while energy-dispersive x-ray and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study confirms the elemental structure. Room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) study reveals the presence of oxygen vacancies and surface defects in the structures. Emission related to free and bound excitons as well as the donor–acceptor transitions were observed using temperature-dependent PL. Raman spectroscopy measurement using 442-nm non-resonant excitation sources shows the presence of four phonon modes associated with a cubic In2O3 lattice structure along with the observation of the dominant E high2 and quasi-longitudinal optical phonon modes associated with wurtzite ZnO. We find that the introduction of high zinc content results in the formation of ZnO nanowires in addition to the In2O3 nanowires, and not the formation of a highly doped In2O3 nanowires.

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This work was partially supported by Grant No. FA9550-15-1-0493 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This work made use of instruments in the Electron Microscopy Service (Research Resources Center, UIC).

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    K. Sarkar, S. Mukherjee, S. Farid, M. A. Stroscio & M. Dutta

  2. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    M. A. Stroscio & M. Dutta

  3. Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    M. A. Stroscio

  4. Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    A. Nicholls

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Sarkar, K., Mukherjee, S., Farid, S. et al. Characterization of Co-existing In2O3-ZnO Nanostructures. J. Electron. Mater. 46, 5848–5854 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5594-6

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