Metal oxide nanoarrays for chemical sensing: a review of fabrication methods, sensing modes, and their inter-correlations

B Zhang, PX Gao - Frontiers in Materials, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, engineered nanostructure assemblies such as nanowire arrays have
attracted much research attention due to their unique chemical and functional characteristics …

Structural and optical properties of ZnO thin films prepared by molecular precursor and sol–gel methods

T Amakali, LS Daniel, V Uahengo, NY Dzade… - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a versatile and inexpensive semiconductor with a wide direct band gap
that has applicability in several scientific and technological fields. In this work, we report the …

Tunable surface wettability of ZnO nanoparticle arrays for controlling the alignment of liquid crystals

YF Chung, MZ Chen, SH Yang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The control of the liquid crystal (LC) alignment is very important for both academic research
and practical applications. LC molecules aligned on the ZnO nanoparticle arrays (ZnO …

High-resolution light field imaging based on liquid crytal microlens arrays with ZnO microstructure orientation

Y He, H Li, W Qian, Y Wu - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
We proposed a liquid crystal (LC) microlens array (MLA) based on zinc oxide (ZnO)
microstructure orientation and used it in a light field imaging system. The system uses …

In situ synthesis of zinc oxide/selenium composite for UV blocker application

C Xia, S Liu, B Cui, M Li, H Wang… - … Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of reliable ultraviolet (UV) blockers is crucial for UV radiation
protection applications such as sunscreen and UV‐resistant fabric. To date, zinc oxide (ZnO) …

Nanoparticles-induced alignment of nematic liquid crystals for tunable electro-optical devices

A Kumar, G Singh - Advances in Fabrication and Investigation of …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Nematic Liquid Crystals (NLCs), long-range orientationally ordered fluids, have
always been the best choice for the development of various display and non-display devices …

Homeotropic liquid crystal device employing vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays as the alignment agent

R Basu, LJ Atwood - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VA-CNT) arrays were grown on several chromium (Cr)-
coated glass substrates using a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition system. The …

Photoelectric hybrid neural network based on ZnO nematic liquid crystal microlens array for hyperspectral imaging

H Li, T Li, S Chen, Y Wu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The miniaturized imaging spectrometers face bottlenecks in reconstructing the high-
resolution spectral image. In this study, we have proposed an optoelectronic hybrid neural …

Electro-optic hybrid aligned nematic device utilizing carbon nanotube arrays and two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride nanosheet as alignment substrates

R Basu, DT Gess - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Hybrid-aligned nematic (HAN) liquid crystal (LC) devices have both fundamental and
technological importance for their applications in LC adaptive lenses, low voltage LC …

Liquid crystals alignment with PbS nanosculptured thin films

A Chaudhary, M Klebanov, I Abdulhalim - Liquid Crystals, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Lead sulphide (PbS) nano-sculptured thin films (nSTFs) are prepared for the first time using
glancing angle deposition technique by physical vapour deposition process. An anisotropic …