Morphological, structural, electrical, and piezoelectric analysis of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanowires on various substrates

Control of ZnO nanowires growth in flexible perovskite solar cells: A mini-review

“…The seed layer (for example, ZnO/Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO)) is usually required to achieve a high-quality, well-aligned ZnO NW growth. The lattice mismatch is consequently reduced between the substrates and the ZnO NWs, which improves the length, the alignment as well as the homogeneity of the NWs [ 54 , 55 ]. In PSCs, the seed layer on flexible (PET/ITO) or rigid (FTO, ITO) substrate behaves as a hole (i.e., h + ) blocking layer that minimizes the recombination issues and thus improves efficiency.…”

Highly C-oriented (002) plane ZnO nanowires synthesis

“…12 These organized structures based on ZnO NWs offer several applicative advantages due to their morphologies and dimensions in the piezoelectric field. 13,14…”

“…12 These organized structures based on ZnO NWs offer several applicative advantages due to their morphologies and dimensions in the piezoelectric eld. 13,14 Several low-cost deposition techniques have been investigated, and it has been found that many important parameters, such as precursor concentration, growth temperature, buffer layer type and thickness, affect the formation of ZnO. [15][16][17] The chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique has attracted the interest of the research community due to its simplicity, cost efficiency, low temperature and environmentally friendly growth deposition, as well as its ability to scale up to large areas for commercial production.…”