Growth of AlN nanobelts, nanorings and branched nanostructures

Preparation and Optical Properties of Free‐Standing Transparent Aluminum Nitride Film Assembled by Aligned Nanorods

“…[1][2][3][4] Particularly, AlN has a good lattice match with GaN and ternary alloy AlGaN, making it well applied in blue and ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs). Nowadays, various AlN nanostructures with different dimensionalities and morphologies, such as nanospheres, 5 nanowires, 6,7 nanotubes, 8,9 nanocones, 10 nanorods, [11][12][13] nanobelts, 14,15 and hierarchical nanostructures 16,17 have been successfully synthesized. In the previous reports, all those AlN nanostructures were adhered on certain substrates or in powder forms with random distribution that limits their applications.…”

Enhanced field emission properties from AlN nanowires synthesized on conductive graphite substrate

“…As an important member of the group III-nitride semiconductors, aluminum nitride (AlN) has stimulated explosive research interest in the past decades due to its outstanding physical and chemical properties, such as a wide direct band gap of 6.2 eV at room temperature, small or even negative electron affinity (≤ 0.6 eV), low work function (3.7 eV), as well as its appealing good mechanical properties, excellent thermal conductivity, chemical stability, and so on [1][2][3][4][5].…”

Facile synthesis of monodisperse aluminum nitride microspheres

“…Various low-dimensional AlN materials, such as nanowires [27,28], nanobelts [29], nanotubes [30,31], nanotips [32,33], nanorods [34,35], nanowhiskers [36,37], nanoplates [38], nanocones [39,40], nanoparticles [41,42], nanorings [43,44], and hollow nanospheres [45][46][47], have been successfully synthesized by some methods including expanded vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth process [48,49], catalyst-assisted growth [34,50], direct nitridation [51,52], direct sublimation process [53], DC arc plasma process [54], and carbothermal reduction [27]. Besides, AlN microfibers [55], hollow microfibers [56], and microspheres [57] have also been reported in detail.…”