Giant defect emission enhancement from ZnO nanowires through desulfurization process

Zhou, Junze; Nomenyo, Komla; Cesar, Clotaire Chevalier; Lusson, Alain; Schwartzberg, Adam; Yen, Chun-Chieh; Woon, Wei-Yen; Lerondel, Gilles

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61189-7

Giant defect emission enhancement from ZnO nanowires through desulfurization process

Journal Article · Thu Mar 05 23:00:00 EST 2020 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61189-7· OSTI ID:1615318

^[1]; Nomenyo, Komla ^[2]; Cesar, Clotaire Chevalier ^[2]; Lusson, Alain ^[3]; Schwartzberg, Adam ^[4]; Yen, Chun-Chieh ^[5]; ^[5]; Lerondel, Gilles ^[2]

Univ. de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes (France). Inst. Charles Delaunay; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes (France). Inst. Charles Delaunay
Univ. de Versailles, Saint Quentin-en-Yveline, Versailles, (France)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
National Central Univ., Taoyuan (Taiwan)

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a stable, direct bandgap semiconductor emitting in the UV with a multitude of technical applications. It is well known that ZnO emission can be shifted into the green for visible light applications through the introduction of defects. However, generating consistent and efficient green emission through this process is challenging, particularly given that the chemical or atomic origin of the green emission in ZnO is still under debate. In this work we present a new method, for which we coin term desulfurization, for creating green emitting ZnO with significantly enhanced quantum efficiency. Solution grown ZnO nanowires are partially converted to ZnS, then desulfurized back to ZnO, resulting in a highly controlled concentration of oxygen defects as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance. Using this controlled placement of oxygen vacancies we observe a greater than 40-fold enhancement of integrated emission intensity and explore the nature of this enhancement through low temperature photoluminescence experiments.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Chinese Scholarship Council; Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST); European Regional Development Fund

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1615318

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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