Citation:
Joe Briscoe, Diego E. Gallardo and Steve Dunn, In situ antimony doping of solution-grown ZnO nanorods, Chemical Communications, issue 10, 2009, pp1273-1275
Abstract:
ZnO nanorods are doped with Sb during the aqueous chemical synthesis by addition
of Sb acetate dissolved in ethylene glycol. The reliable production of p-type
ZnO has been a challenge for some time. This is because the as-grown ZnO is
nominally n-type due to intrinsic defects, 1 so holes introduced by acceptor
dopants are generally compensated by the high intrinsic free electron density.
Despite these difficulties, there have been increasing examples in recent years of
p-type ZnO thin films and nanostructures. There is significant interest in
producing p-type ZnO nanostructures due to many potential device applications.
For example, transistors or diodes based on ZnO nano-homojunctions could be used
for transparent electronics, UV optoelectronics and photonic
