Print Email Facebook Twitter Formation and stability of rocksalt ZnO nanocrystals in MgO Title Formation and stability of rocksalt ZnO nanocrystals in MgO Author Eijt, S.W.H. De Roode, J. Schut, H. Kooi, B.J. De Hosson, J.T.M. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Radiation, Radionuclides and Reactors Date 2007-11-13 Abstract Coimplantation of Zn and O ions into a single crystalline MgO and subsequent thermal annealing were applied in the synthesis of ZnO nanocrystals. Electron microscopy showed that rocksalt instead of wurtzite ZnO stabilizes for relatively large nanocrystals up to ~15?nm, resulting from its small lattice mismatch with MgO of ~1.7%. The vacancies initially created by implantation induce favorable nanocrystal growth kinetics and are effectively absorbed during the nucleation and growth processes. The optical band edge of the ZnO nanocrystals was detected at ~2.8?eV. Subject annealingelectron microscopyenergy gapmagnesium compoundsnanostructured materialsnucleationzinc compounds To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8b280b36-830a-4ea0-8c09-b55e84f3d929 DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809651 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 0003-6951 Source http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v91/i20/p201906/s1 Source Applied Physics Letters, 91 (20), 2007 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2007 The Author(s); American Institute of Physics Files PDF Eijt_2007.pdf 349.91 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8b280b36-830a-4ea0-8c09-b55e84f3d929/datastream/OBJ/view