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Correlation between ZnO Nanowire Growth and the Surface of AlN Substrate
journal contribution
posted on 2006-12-06, 00:00 authored by Sang Hyun Lee, In-Ho Im, Hyun Jung Lee, Zahra Vashaei, Takashi Hanada, Meoung-Whan Cho, Takafumi YaoSingle-crystalline ZnO nanowires are fabricated by thermal chemical vapor transport and condensation on AlN epilayers
without employing any metal catalyst. Before the growth of ZnO nanowires, the surface of AlN epilayers was treated by HF solution and
then changed to a mixture of flat plane and hillocks according to dipping time. ZnO nanowires along the c-axis direction of hexagonal
structures were synthesized only on the HF treated AlN surface. ZnO nanowire arrays have been obtained by selective etching by
photolithography process. A mechanism for nanowire growth on modified AlN epilayer is proposed.