Original title: Emergence of dark ZnO nanorods by hydrogen plasma treatment
Authors: Remeš, Zdeněk ; Buryi, Maksym ; Sharma, Dhananjay Kumar ; Artemenko, Anna ; Mičová, J. ; Rezek, B. ; Poruba, A. ; Hsu, H.S. ; Potocký, Štěpán ; Babin, Vladimir
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application /13./ NANOCON, Brno (CZ), 20211020
Year: 2021
Language: eng
Abstract: We employed a custom-built inductively coupled plasma (ICP) 13.56 MHz reactor with up to 300 W RF discharge power. Hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorods were exposed to the ICP plasma with a mixture of hydrogen and argon for up to 30 min, followed in-situ by plasma oxidation. Plasma properties were monitored by optical emission spectroscopy (OES) and by measuring the self-bias potential of the stainless steel sample holder separated from the ground by a blocking capacitor. The exciton-related UV photoluminescence of ZnO nanorods and optical absorption increases significantly after the plasma treatment. We attribute it to the complex changes of ZnO surface electronic states that also give rise to its black color visually.
Keywords: ICP; photoluminescence; ZnO
Project no.: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000760, EF16_019/0000760, SAV-21-09 (CEP), GC19-02858J (CEP), StrategieAV21/6
Funding provider: OP VVV - SOLID21, GA MŠk, AV ČR, GA ČR, AV ČR
Host item entry: NANOCON 2021 - Conference proceedings, ISBN 978-80-88365-00-6, ISSN 2694-930X

Institution: Institute of Physics AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: https://www.confer.cz/nanocon/2021/download/4374-emergence-of-dark-zno-nanorods-by-hydrogen-plasma-treatment.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331491

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