Nanostructured ZnO films - Adhesion activity of staphylococcus aureus

Author

Geetha, S.R. ; Dhivya, P. ; Deepak Raj, P. ; Lakshmi, Saranya J. ; AdlinePrincy, S. ; Sridharan, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Chem. & Biotechnol., SASTRA Univ., Thanjavur, India

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 July 2013

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

129

Abstract

Highly transparent Zinc Oxide (ZnO) thin films were prepared by reactive DC magnetron sputtering onto thoroughly cleaned stainless steel and glass substrates. X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern revealed that the sputtered films were crystalline in nature with preferred (002) orientation. The crystallite size was increased from 22 to 27 nm as the bias increases. The prepared ZnO films exhibited better anti adhesion activity against S.aureus.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; X-ray diffraction; adhesion; antibacterial activity; crystallites; microorganisms; nanofabrication; nanostructured materials; semiconductor growth; semiconductor thin films; sputter deposition; texture; transparency; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; SiO₂; Staphylococcus aureus; X-ray diffraction; XRD; ZnO; bacterial adhesion activity; cleaned stainless steel substrates; crystallite size; glass substrates; highly transparent nanostructured zinc oxide films; preferred orientation; reactive DC magnetron sputtering; sputtered crystalline films; Magnetic susceptibility; Tribology; Bias voltage; S.aureus; Sputtering; ZnO films;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Nanomaterials and Emerging Engineering Technologies (ICANMEET), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1377-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICANMEET.2013.6609256

Filename

6609256