Tunable luminescence of pure ZnO nanowires prepared by microwave irradiation in ethanol

Synthesis of ZnSe and ZnSe:Cu quantum dots by a room temperature photochemical (UV‐assisted) approach using Na2SeO3 as Se source and investigating optical properties

“…Nano-scale semiconductors have interesting properties due to quantum confinement effects, therefore much attention has been paid to these materials. [1][2][3] Among several semiconductor QDs, II-VI semiconductor QDs such as CdS, CdSe, CdTe, ZnS and ZnSe have also received special attention because of their great potential application as light emitting-diodes, sensors, solar cells and in fundamental research. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Experimental results have shown that cadmium compounds are toxic and dangerous to biological systems.…”

Elaboration of ZnO nanowires by solution based method, characterization and solar cell applications

“…Many synthetic methodologies have been employed to achieve ZnO nanowires, including ball-milling [12] , chemical bath deposition [13,14] , physical vapor deposition (PVD) [5] , hydrothermal process or two step method [15][16][17] , electrochemical deposition [18] , sonochemical [19] , pulsed-laser deposition [20] , vapor phase deposition [21] , radio frequency magnetron sputtering [22] , sol-gel [23] , spray pyrolysis [24] , microwave irradiation [25] and chemical vapor deposition [26,27] . ZnO nanostructures such as nanowires have been extensively studied for many applications including photo-detectors [28,29] , solar cells [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] , sensors [39][40] light-emitting diodes [41] and photo catalysis [42][43][44] .…”