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Modulation of electronic properties of tin oxide nanobelts via thermal control of surface oxygen defects.

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العنوان: Modulation of electronic properties of tin oxide nanobelts via thermal control of surface oxygen defects.
المؤلفون: Timothy D Keiper, Jorge L Barreda, Jim P Zheng, Peng Xiong
المصدر: Nanotechnology; 2/3/2017, Vol. 28 Issue 5, p1-1, 1p
مصطلحات موضوعية: ELECTRICAL properties of tin oxides, NANOBELTS, FIELD-effect transistors
مستخلص: Nanomaterials made from binary metal oxides are of increasing interest because of their versatility in applications from flexible electronics to portable chemical and biological sensors. Controlling the electrical properties of these materials is the first step in device implementation. Tin dioxide (SnO2) nanobelts (NB) synthesized by the vapor–liquid–solid mechanism have shown much promise in this regard. We explore the modification of devices prepared with single crystalline NBs by thermal annealing in vacuum and oxygen, resulting in a viable field-effect transistor (FET) for numerous applications at ambient temperature. An oxygen annealing step initially increases the device conductance by up to a factor of 105, likely through the modification of the surface defects of the NB, leading to Schottky barrier limited devices. A multi-step annealing procedure leads to further increase of the conductance by approximately 350% and optimization of the electronic properties. The effects of each step is investigated systematically on a single NB. The optimization of the electrical properties of the NBs makes possible the consistent production of channel-limited FETs and control of the device performance. Understanding these improvements on the electrical properties over the as-grown materials provides a pathway to enhance and tailor the functionalities of tin oxide nanostructures for a wide variety of optical, electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing applications that operate at room temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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تدمد:09574484
DOI:10.1088/1361-6528/28/5/055701