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High-yield TiO2 nanowire synthesis and single nanowire field-effect transistor fabrication

  • Jeong Min Baik
  • , Myung Hwa Kim
  • , Christopher Larson
  • , Xihong Chen
  • , Shujing Guo
  • , Alec M. Wodtke
  • , Martin Moskovits

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Abstract

We report a facile method for synthesizing single-crystal rutile TiO 2 nanowires using atmospheric-pressure, chemical vapor deposition with Ti and TiO as precursors. The synthesis is found to depend critically on the predeposition of a layer of metallic Ti on the Ni catalysts layer. The omission of this step seems previously to have impeded the efficient synthesis of titania nanowires. Single-nanowire field-effect transistors showed the TiO2 nanowires to be n -type semiconductors with conductance activation energy of ∼58 meV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number242111
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume92
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
J.M.B. and M.H.K. contributed equally to this study. This work was supported by the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies through Grant No. DAAD19-03-D-0004 from the U.S. Army Research Office and made extensive use of the MRL Central Facilities at UCSB supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Nos. DMR-0080034 and DMR-0216466 for the HRTEM/STEM microscopy. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Partnership for International Research and Education—for Electronic Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces—NSF Grant No. OISE-0530268.

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