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Hindi Research Article, J Nanomater Mol Nanotechnol Vol: 2 Issue: 2
Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned ZnO Nanorods along the Seeds Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering and its Applications in Quantum Dots Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells
| Haiping Wang1,2, Qiong Ma2, Haihong Niu2, Xiaoli Mao2, Lei Wan2, Jinzhang Xu1,2* and Shiding Miao2 | |
| 1School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China | |
| 2Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230031, P. R. China | |
| Corresponding author : Jinzhang Xu School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China Tel: 86-551-2901126; Fax: 86-551-2901115 E-mail: xujz@lzu.edu.cn |
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| Received: December 26, 2012 Accepted: February 18, 2013 Published: February 25, 2013 | |
| Citation: Wang H, Ma Q, Niu H, Mao X, Wan L, et al. (2013) Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned ZnO Nanorods along the Seeds Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering and its Applications in Quantum Dots Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells. J Nanomater Mol Nanotechnol 2:2. doi:10.4172/2324-8777.1000108 |
Abstract
Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned ZnO Nanorods along the Seeds Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering and its Applications in Quantum Dots Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells
Well-aligned ZnO nanorods were grown on a conductive substrate via a hydrothermal route. The substrates were pre-seeded with ZnO by a technique of radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering. The influences of sputtering power, annealing treatment, and the size of seeds on the morphologies of the final-prepared ZnO nanorods have been studied. It was found that the length and the aspect ratio of the ZnO rods can be readily tuned by control of the ZnO seeds which results from the RF sputtering experiments. ZnO seeds deposited at low sputtering power (100~125 W) share uniform size distribution with smaller average size (~30 nm). Higher sputtering power yields longer ZnO rods with a higher aspect ratio up to ~12.5. The seed layers after annealing (~500ºC) produce ZnO rods with an increased average diameter and a smaller aspect ratio, and these features benefit the electron transfer when the prepared ZnO nano-arrays are used as electrode substrates in photovoltaic cells. By deposition of hydrophilic CdSe quantum dots (QDs) on the ZnO nano-rod, the maximum photo to current efficiency (0.42%) was obtained in case of ZnO nanorod with the length of ~2.75 μm and an aspect ratio of ~9.5 obtained from the seeds after annealing.
