Title :
Growth control of CuO nanowires on copper thin films: Toward the development of pn nanojunction arrays
Author :
Mel, A.A.E. ; Buffiere, Marie ; Bouts, N. ; Gautron, E. ; Bittencourt, C. ; Guttmann, P. ; Tessier, P.Y. ; Konstantinidis, S. ; Snyders, Rony
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. for Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Mons, Mons, Belgium
Abstract :
The growth of single crystal CuO nanowires by thermal annealing of copper thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering is studied. We show that by tuning the morphology and structure of the sputtered copper thin films, the density, length, and diameter of the CuO nanowires can be controlled accurately.
Keywords :
annealing; copper compounds; nanofabrication; nanowires; narrow band gap semiconductors; semiconductor growth; Cu; CuO; DC magnetron sputtering; copper thin films; density; growth control; morphology; nanowires; p-n nanojunction arrays; thermal annealing; Conferences; Decision support systems; Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology; Nanowires; Photovoltaic;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2013 IEEE 5th International
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4840-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2159-3523
DOI :
10.1109/INEC.2013.6465997
