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The hydrogen plasma doping of ZnO thin films and nanoparticles
Remeš, Zdeněk ; Neykova, Neda ; Potocký, Štěpán ; Chang, Yu-Ying ; Hsu, H.S.
The optical absorptance and photoluminescence studies has been applied on the hydrogen and oxygen plasma treated, nominally undoped ZnO thin films and aligned nanocolumns grown on the nucleated glass substrate by the hydrothermal process in an oil bath containing a flask with ZnO nutrient solution. The localized defect states at 2.3 eV below the optical absorption edge were detected by photothermal deflection spectroscopy (PDS) in a broad spectral range from near UV to near IR. The optical absorptance spectroscopy shows that hydrogen doping increases free electron concentration changing ZnO to be electrically conductive (hydrogen doping).\n
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Preparation of zinc oxide nanorods colloid from thin layers
Mičová, Júlia ; Remeš, Zdeněk ; Chang, Yu-Ying ; Neykova, Neda
The interest in ZnO (zinc oxide) nanoparticles is increasing due to low cost of their processing as well as the ability of fabricating ZnO nanostructures with controllable morphology such as size, shape and orientation. Our choice of method of the preparation of the nanostructured thin ZnO layers is the hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods on glass substrates coated by the nucleation layer deposited by the reactive magnetron sputtering. We have developed and optimized conditions of the thin layer growth with controllable dimensions of nanorods followed by the ultrasound peeling. The colloid of ZnO nanorods was characterized by measuring the size of particles using the dynamic light scattering (DLS) and the scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We found that the dynamic light scattering (DLS) can’t be directly used for size evaluation of ZnO nanorods due to their non- sperical shape. \n
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Hydrogen plasma treatment of ZnO thin films
Chang, Yu-Ying ; Neykova, Neda ; Stuchlík, Jiří ; Purkrt, Adam ; Remeš, Zdeněk
ZnO is an attractive wide band gap semiconductor with large exciton binding energy, high refractive index, high biocompatibility and diversety of nanostructure shapes which makes it suitable for many applications in the optoelectronic devices, optical sensors, and biosensors. We study the effect of hydrogen plasma treatment of the nominally undoped ZnO thin film deposited by DC reactive magnetron sputtering of Zn target in the gas mixture of argon and oxygen plasma. The SEM images show that the crystal size increases with film thickness. We confirm, that the electrical conductivity significantly increases after hydrogen plasma treatment by 4 orders of magnitude. Moreover, the increase of the infrared optical absorption, related to free carrier concentration, was detected below the optical absorption edge by the photothermal deflection spectroscopy.\n
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Photothermal and photocurrent spectroscopy of wide band gap nanocrystalline semiconductors
Remeš, Zdeněk ; Babchenko, Oleg ; Neykova, Neda ; Varga, Marián
Optical spectroscopy belongs to the most important methods applied to characterize thin films. Photothermal deflection spectroscopy (PDS) as well as the dual beam photocurrent (DBP) spectroscopy in near ultraviolet (200-400 nm), visible (400-700 nm) and near infrared regions (700-2000 nm) are particularly useful for study of the wide band gap semiconductors deposited as thin layers on glass substrates. In our laboratory we focus on optically transparent thin films such as nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) or ZnO nanostructures with size too small to be visualized in optical microscope and the optical absorption edge in the ultraviolet region. In this contribution we summarize how to evaluate the optical absorption edge and the defects in the band gap of these wide band gap nanocrystalline semiconductors.
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Pulsed linear antenna microwave plasma – a step ahead in large area material depositions and surface functionalization
Kromka, Alexander ; Babchenko, Oleg ; Ižák, Tibor ; Potocký, Štěpán ; Davydova, Marina ; Neykova, Neda ; Kozak, Halyna ; Remeš, Zdeněk ; Hruška, Karel ; Rezek, Bohuslav
A technological progress in the large area growth of diamond films and carbon nanotubes by the modified linear antenna MW system is presented. We show a correlation between process parameters and nano- or poly-crystalline film character. A challenging part, diamond coated mirrors or ATR prisms, are shown as multifunctional optical elements suitable for detection of absorbed molecules. Additional positive feature of the presented plasma system is low temperature hydrogen functionalization of diamond films. Finally, we present that combination of pulsed MW plasma with radiofrequency substrate biasing results in growth of oriented CNTs over large area.
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