Nano Perspectives
The Periodic Instability of Diameter of ZnO Nanowires via a Self-oscillatory Mechanism
Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, P.R. China
Nanoscale Research Letters 2007, 2:492-495 doi:10.1007/s11671-007-9094-0
Published: 13 September 2007Abstract
ZnO nanowires with a periodic instability of diameter were successfully prepared by a thermal physical vapor deposition method. The morphology of ZnO nanowires was investigated by SEM. SEM shows ZnO possess periodic bead-like structure. The instability only appears when the diameter of ZnO nanowires is small. The kinetics and mechanism of Instability was discussed at length. The appearance of the instability is due to negative feed-back mechanism under certain experimental conditions (crystallization temperature, vapor supersaturation, etc).
