Field emission from patterned SnO 2 nanostructures

Yongsheng Zhang, Ke Yu, Guodong Li, Deyan Peng, Qiuxiang Zhang, Hongmei Hu, Feng Xu, Wei Bai, Shixi Ouyang, Ziqiang Zhu

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Abstract

A simple and reliable method has been developed for synthesizing finely patterned tin dioxide (SnO 2 ) nanostructure arrays on silicon substrates. A patterned Au catalyst film was prepared on the silicon wafer by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering and photolithographic patterning processes. The patterned SnO 2 nanostructures arrays, a unit area is of ∼500 μm × 200 μm, were synthesized via vapor phase transport method. The surface morphology and composition of the as-synthesized SnO 2 nanostructures were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The mechanism of formation of SnO 2 nanostructures was also discussed. The measurement of field emission (FE) revealed that the as-synthesized SnO 2 nanorods, nanowires and nanoparticles arrays have a lower turn-on field of 2.6, 3.2 and 3.9 V/μm, respectively, at the current density of 0.1 μA/cm 2 . This approach must have a wide variety of applications such as fabrications of micro-optical components and micropatterned oxide thin films used in FE-based flat panel displays, sensor arrays and so on.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)792-796
Number of pages5
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume253
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Nov 2006

Keywords

  • Field emission
  • Patterned growth
  • Tin oxide nanostructure

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