Polarity in ZnO nanowires: A critical issue for piezotronic and piezoelectric devices

V Consonni, AM Lord - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The polar and piezoelectric nature of the wurtzite structure of ZnO nanowires with a high
aspect ratio at nanoscale dimensions is of high interest for piezotronic and piezoelectric …

Boosting the piezoelectric coefficients of flexible dynamic strain sensors made of chemically-deposited ZnO nanowires using compensatory Sb doping

J Villafuerte, X Zhang, E Sarigiannidou, F Donatini… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric devices made of ZnO nanowires have received a great interest in the past
decade as potential nanogenerators and sensors. However, their characteristics are still …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic-scale structure and properties of highly stable antiphase boundary defects in Fe3O4

KP McKenna, F Hofer, D Gilks, VK Lazarov… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The complex and intriguing properties of the ferrimagnetic half metal magnetite (Fe 3 O 4)
are of continuing fundamental interest as well as being important for practical applications in …

Zinc vacancy–hydrogen complexes as major defects in ZnO nanowires grown by chemical bath deposition

J Villafuerte, F Donatini, J Kioseoglou… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Crystal defects in unintentionally doped ZnO nanowires grown by chemical bath deposition
(CBD) play a capital role in their optical and electrical properties, governing the …

Dimensional roadmap for maximizing the piezoelectrical response of ZnO nanowire-based transducers: impact of growth method

AJL Garcia, M Mouis, V Consonni, G Ardila - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
ZnO nanowires are excellent candidates for energy harvesters, mechanical sensors,
piezotronic and piezophototronic devices. The key parameters governing the general …

Evidence of piezoelectric potential and screening effect in single highly doped ZnO: Ga and ZnO: Al nanowires by advanced scanning probe microscopy

O Synhaivskyi, D Albertini, P Gaffuri… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A complete study based on advanced atomic force microscopy electrical mode called
scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) is carried out on a series of samples of …

Polarity-dependent high electrical conductivity of ZnO nanorods and its relation to hydrogen

T Cossuet, F Donatini, AM Lord, E Appert… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A statistical analysis of the electrical properties of selective area grown O-and Zn-polar ZnO
nanorods by chemical bath deposition is performed by four-point probe resistivity …

Electric Field Manipulation of Defects and Schottky Barrier Control inside ZnO Nanowires

MS Haseman, H Gao, K Duddella… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We directly measure the three-dimensional movement of intrinsic point defects driven by
applied electric fields inside ZnO nano-and micro-wire metal–semiconductor–metal device …

Correlated and in-situ electrical transmission electron microscopy studies and related membrane-chip fabrication

M Spies, ZS Momtaz, J Lähnemann, MA Luong… - …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the interplay between the structure, composition and opto-electronic
properties of semiconductor nano-objects requires combining transmission electron …

Finely interpenetrating bulk heterojunction structure for lead sulfide colloidal quantum dot solar cells by convective assembly

G Shi, A Kaewprajak, X Ling, A Hayakawa… - ACS Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Lead chalcogenides colloidal quantum dot (PbS CQD) solar cells employing an ordered
bulk heterojunction (OBHJ) structure allow sufficient utilization of solar energy and at the …