Fabrication and structure characterization of Te butterfly nanostructures

Author

Wong, Tailun ; She, Guangwei ; Cheng, Chun ; Li, Wei ; Shi, Wensheng ; Zhang, Xiaohong ; Wang, Ning

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Inst. of Nano Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2010

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

108

Abstract

Te butterfly nanostructures and nanowires have been fabricated by template-free electrodeposition (TFED) in aqueous solution. By high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) study, the favored growth direction of the wings of the butterfly nanostructures and nanowires was determined to be along the [0001] direction of trigonal Te, and the twinning plane of the butterfly nanostructures was (11-22). The cathodoluminescence measurements carried out at different positions of the butterfly nanostructure indicated that the twin boundary influenced the photoemission efficiency.

Keywords

cathodoluminescence; electrodeposition; nanowires; photoemission; tellurium; transmission electron microscopy; twin boundaries; twinning; Te; [0001] direction; aqueous solution; butterfly nanostructures; cathodoluminescence measurements; high-resolution transmission electron microscopy; nanowires; photoemission efficiency; structure characterization; template-free electrodeposition; twin boundary; twinning plane; Chemical technology; Electrodes; Fabrication; Lattices; Materials science and technology; Morphology; Nanostructures; Nanowires; Physics; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2010 3rd International

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3543-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3544-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INEC.2010.5424558

Filename

5424558