Formation of star nanowires of sulfur-doped zinc oxide: Ab initio calculations

ZnO nanowires are hexagonally shaped under normal growth conditions, but are transformed from a hexagon to hexagram ones when sulfur dopants are added into the growth solution. The formation mechanism of the hexagram-shaped ZnO nanowires is further studied by the ab initio calculations in this paper...

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Main Authors: Qiu-Bao Lin, Shun-Qing Wu, Zi-Zhong Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2016-09-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4963742