CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2020
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IF 3.83
Jian Ding,Shuqun Chen,Ning Han,Yi Shi,Peng Hu,Hongyi Li,Jinshu Wang
Gas response control through structural and defect engineering in metal oxides are critical approaches to realize high performance sensors. Herein, we present the fabrication of ZnO thin films containing nanosized structures and high concentration of zinc interstitials for NO 2 and ethanol monitoring. The target materials were fabricated by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) method on ceramic and glass substrates, and were characterized by complementary analytical techniques. The obtained ZnO nanoparticulate and nanopyramidal thin films yielded an outstanding response of ~41 to 1 ppm NO 2 and ~236 towards 100 ppm ethanol, respectively. The reasons accounting for such an enhancement were revealed by the surface-depletion model in ZnO and the chemisorption energies of oxygen molecules on Zn i -enriched crystal facets.
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材料科学
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传感器技术
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
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2020
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IF 2.904
Gulgina Mamtmin,Renagul Abdurahman,Yin Yan,Patima Nizamidin,Abliz Yimit
A highly sensitive and selective optical sensor device based on a porphyrin-coated ZnO thin film/K + ion-exchanged glass composite optical waveguide (COWG) layer was developed. The surface of the ZnO film was coated with a thin film of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-methoxyphenyl) porphyrin by the spin-coating or immersion method. The optical properties of the films were probed by UV–vis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopies. The gas sensing performance was also examined in detail. The high sensitivity, room temperature operation, good selectivity, and reproducibility of the sensor render it a promising candidate for industrial use and in environmental monitoring.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
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IF 1.2
Gulgina Mamtmin,Patima Nizamidin,Reyanggu Abula,Abliz Yimit
Composite optical waveguide sensors show immense potential for the trace-level detection of harmful gases owing to their high sensitivity. Herein, we prepared a highly sensitive ZnO film/K + ion-exchanged composite optical waveguide sensor by fixing a thin ZnO film layer on the surface of a K + ion-exchanged glass optical waveguide. To study the influence of the preparation method on the gas sensitivity of the sensing element, 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-methoxyphenyl)porphyrin was used as a sensing layer on the surface of the ZnO film and fixed via the spin-coating and immersion methods. The gas sensitivity of the sensors prepared by the two methods was comparatively studied. The sensor elements prepared by the immersion method showed higher sensitivity than those prepared by the spin-coating method. Furthermore, the reasons for the difference in the gas sensitivity are discussed in detail. The experimental results show that the as-prepared sensor can detect ppt levels of H 2 S and SO 2 gases and has potential application in the detection of trace levels of sulfide gases in the environment and in industrial production.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2014
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IF 2.726
L.W. Wang,F. Wu,D.X. Tian,W.J. Li,L. Fang,C.Y. Kong,M. Zhou
In this paper, Na-doped ZnO (NZO) thin films with doping contents of 3–30 at.% were synthesized on quartz glass substrates by sol–gel spin coating method. The structure, morphology, optical transmittance and photoluminescence properties of NZO films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), atomic force microscope (AFM), UV–VIS spectrometer and fluorescence spectrophotometer, respectively. The results showed that all the NZO thin films exhibit a strong preferential c -axis orientation with a hexagonal polycrystalline structure. An apparent increase in crystallinity was observed with the increasing Na content. The surface of the heavily Na doped samples (30 at.%) exhibits nanorods morphology. The RMS roughness changed from 16.219 nm to 53.072 nm with the increase of Na concentrations. As Na doping content increases to 24 at.%, the average transmittance was still larger than 62% in the visible range. The optical band gap initially increased and then decreased nearly linearly with the increase of Na content. The refractive index of NZO films in the visible range was found to increase gradually with increasing Na dopants. Room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectra showed sharp ultraviolet emissions centered at 388 nm and broad green–yellow emissions (450–650 nm). The violet emission centered at 424 nm appeared in the spectra of 30 at.% NZO. In addition, it was found that the low Na doping concentration contributed to the enhancement of I NBE / I DLE .
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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IF 9.5
Hailin Pan,Jie Wang,Zhi Chen,Ziqi Su,Zheng Tang,Zaifei Ma
Developing transparent conductors to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) is a critical objective in the field of organic optoelectronics. Non-atomically doped (NAD) ZnO thin films, while currently exhibiting limited conductivity, are highly promising candidates due to their unique advantages, such as having complete transparency in both the visible and near-infrared spectral regions, solution processability, and the desired surface electronic properties. In this work, the impact of surface modification by insulating polymers on the ultraviolet-enhanced conductivity of NAD-ZnO films is investigated. It was found that polymer modifiers that are rich in amino and hydroxyl groups are effective at increasing the concentration of oxygen vacancies and the conductivity of NAD-ZnO films. The highest conductivity of over 1000 S cm–1, which is more than twice as high as the previous record for NAD-ZnO films, is achieved using polyethylenimine ethoxylated (PEIE) to modify NAD-ZnO films. Subsequently, the replacement of ITO in organic photovoltaic devices by a ZnO/PEIE electrode is realized. The ZnO/PEIE-based OPV devices that were created exhibit performances comparable to those of ITO-based devices under simulated solar illumination and performances better than those achieved with ITO-based devices under simulated indoor illumination. These results make NAD-ZnO a promising candidate for the widespread replacement of ITO in optoelectronic devices.
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光电化学
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Frontiers of Optoelectronics
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2024
·Vol. 17
·期 1
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IF 4.1
Li Zha,Li Wancai,Li Dehui,Tang Wei,Liang Huageng,Song Huaibing,Chen Chao,Gao Liang,Tang Jiang
Chiral inorganic semiconductors with high dissymmetric factor are highly desirable, but it is generally difficult to induce chiral structure in inorganic semiconductors because of their structure rigidity and symmetry. In this study, we introduced chiral ZnO film as hard template to transfer chirality to CsPbBr 3 film and PbS quantum dots (QDs) for circularly polarized light (CPL) emission and detection, respectively. The prepared CsPbBr 3 /ZnO thin film exhibited CPL emission at 520 nm and the PbS QDs/ZnO film realized CPL detection at 780 nm, featuring high dissymmetric factor up to around 0.4. The electron transition based mechanism is responsible for chirality transfer. Graphical Abstract
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2018
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IF 5.667
Tianjiao Qi,Xi Yang,Jie Sun
Based on the neck-controlled conduction model of chemiresistive gas sensors, construction of neck-controlled conduction networks in metal oxide films is an efficient method to improve their sensitivity. In this work, we develop a facile route to prepare the neck-connected ZnO (NC-ZnO) films with controllable diameters of the necked part by the sintering of core-shell zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8)@ZnO films. In order to certify the enhancement of sensitivity by construction of neck-controlled conduction networks, their gas sensing properties towards ethanol are systematically investigated. The results demonstrate that the sensitivity of the optimal NC-ZnO film is dramatically improved, and the response value is about 6-times higher than that of ZnO film, reaching up to 124 ( I g /I a ) towards 50 ppm of ethanol. The results meet our expectation and are in conformity with the neck-controlled conduction model, which further indicates the developed approach in this work is expected to open up a new strategy for the preparation of neck-connected metal oxide films.
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Crystals
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2023
·Vol. 13
·期 2
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IF 2.7
Zhenying Chen,Xiuqing Cao,Yuyang Huang,Shuang Zhang,Wenjian Pan,Wen Deng
Ti-doped ZnO (TZO) and Bi2O3thin films were designed and deposited by magnetron sputtering successively on ITO glass substrate to form a Ti-doped ZnO/Bi2O3(TZO/Bi2O3) heterojunction. Microstructure and photoelectric properties of TZO, Bi2O3, and TZO/Bi2O3films were tested and characterized. The results showed that TZO film with a hexagonal wurtzite structure was preferentially grown along the crystal plane (002), had a good crystallization state, and was an N-type semiconductor film with high transmittance (90%) and low resistivity (4.68 × 10−3Ω·cm). However, the Bi2O3film sputtered in an oxygen-containing atmosphere and was a polycrystalline film that was preferentially grown along the crystal plane (111). It had a lower crystallization quality than TZO film and was a P-type semiconductor film with low transmittance (68%) and high resistance (1.71 × 102Ω·cm). The I–V curve of TZO/Bi2O3composite films showed that it had an obvious heterojunction rectification effect, which indicates that the PN heterojunction successfully formed in TZO/Bi2O3films.Keywords:TZO film;Bi2O3film;TZO/Bi2O3heterojunction;magnetron sputtering;optoelectronic properties
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半导体物理
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
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2020
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IF 2.029
Xianghua Wang,Xingfu Chen,Xinjun Wang,Juntao Hu,Yihui Wu,Wen-Hua Zhang
The surface polarity of nanocrystalline ZnO film, a typical electron transport material in optoelectronics , is chemically modified using self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of phenethyl trichlorosilane (PETS). The surface treatment is proved to generate a hydrophobic surface by removing the hydroxyl groups on the oxide layer, which reduces the emission quenching of the subsequent CsPbBr 3 quantum dot film. In addition, the surface polarity was engineered with varying PETS concentration, thereby contribute to an increased photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) by up to 50%. Meanwhile, the thermal stability of photoluminescence was enhanced showing a wide-range temperature tolerance up to 140 °C.
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光学工程
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纳米技术
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2019
·Vol. 30
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IF 15.621
Yong Zhang,Xiaoyue Zhao,Jiaxin Chen,Siyuan Li,Wei Yang,Xiaosheng Fang
ZnO film ultraviolet photodetectors (UV PDs) have always suffered from slow speed and low photosensitivity that restrict their broader applications. To break through those barriers, high-performance ZnO UV PD based on self-polarized BaTiO 3 (BTO) is first introduced through a facile one-step spin-coating method. Compared with pure ZnO film UV PD with low on/off ratio (65) and slow speed (4.1/7.5 s) at 3 V bias under 350 nm UV light, the BTO-ZnO bilayer film device exhibits an ultrahigh on/off ratio (14 300) and ultrafast response speed (0.11/5.80 ms), which is much faster than that of the most reported ZnO film-based UV PDs. The numerical simulation demonstrates that the spatial distribution of electron concentration of ZnO film is regulated by the self-polarization of BTO film, resulting in low dark current and fast response time of the BTO-ZnO PD. This work provides a new approach to fabricate high-performance PDs based on self-polarized ferroelectric materials.
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SOLAR ENERGY
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2016
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IF 3.685
Xiaodong Ren,Wenping Dang,Qiang Ma,Xuejie Zhu,Wei Zi,Lujian Jia,Bin Liu,Xisheng Zhang,Fengwei Xiao,Heqing Yang,Zhou Yang,Shengzhong (Frank) Liu
Superior texture-controlled ZnO thin film is prepared using a low cost electrochemical deposition process at open atmospheric condition. FE-SEM shows that the surface morphology can be altered from nanorods to microplates by adding a chemical additive. XRD analysis confirms that the crystalline growth direction and texture can be controlled by changing the additive concentration during the deposition. Using the optimized ZnO based back reflector (BR) in single junction a-SiGe:H solar cell device, we have achieved external quantum efficiency (EQE) as high as 87% at ∼550 nm; the EQE corrected short circuit current density ( J SC ) was 20.63 mA cm −2 and solar cell efficiency was 7.73% for the single junction a-SiGe:H solar cell. It proves to us that the high quality ZnO thin films can be produced at much reduced cost using electrochemical deposition for solar cell and other optoelectronic applications.
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能源技术
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 6.7
Fei Xue,Jihui Wang,Yutong Hou,Wenbin Hu
ZnO resistive switching films were prepared on the surface of SS304 using hydrothermal method combined with heat treatment. The surface and cross-sectional morphology, composition, oxygen vacancy content and semiconductor type of ZnO films were characterized. The corrosion resistance and resistance switching properties of ZnO films were determined by electrochemical methods. The oxygen vacancy formation energy, surface adsorption energy and diffusion barrier of ZnO system were calculated using first-principles. The results show that the samples with 0.5 mol/L Zn 2+ and 4 mol/L NaOH have the best performance, and its corrosion resistance efficiency can reach more than 99.5 %. Calculations show that the ZnO film containing oxygen vacancies still prevents the entry of Cl − , and applied electric field promotes the formation of oxygen vacancies and conductive filaments. Thus, polarization-immersion treatment can adjust the oxygen vacancy content in film, which enables film to switch between high and low resistance states, realizing the cyclic resistance-switching performance of film and greatly extending service life.
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电化学
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