The influence of the composition within multilayered heterostructure oxide semiconductors has a critical impact on the performance of thin-film transistor (TFT) devices. The heterostructures, comprising alternating polycrystalline indium oxide and zinc oxide layers, are fabricated by a facile atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, enabling the tuning of its electrical properties by precisely controlling the thickness of the individual layers. This subsequently results in enhanced TFT performance for the optimized stacked architecture after mild thermal annealing at temperatures as low as 200 °C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZnS nanoparticles have been synthesized on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes by gas-phase conversion of ZnO nanoparticles which have been tethered on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes using atomic layer deposition (ALD). The resulting ZnO@CNT nanocomposite has been converted to ZnS@CNT by reacting it with hydrogen sulfide using thioacetamide as a precursor. The composition of the resulting nanocomposite could be tuned from a mixed ternary ZnS/ZnO@CNT nanocomposite to a pure ZnS@CNT nanocomposite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere, we show that the synergistic interplay between two binding equilibria, acting at different sites of a (Zn)phthalocyanine-amidine molecule (Pc1), enables the dissociation of the photoinactive phthalocyanine dimer (Pc1)2 into a three-component system, in which a sequence of light harvesting, charge separation, and charge shift is successfully proven. The aforementioned dimer is assembled by dual amidine-Zn(II) coordination between neighboring Pc1 molecules and gives rise to high association constants (KD ≈ 10(11) M(-1)). Such extraordinary stability hampers the individual binding of either carboxylic acid ligands through the amidine group or pyridine-type ligands through the Zn(II) metal atom to (Pc1)2.
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