Aligned vertical growth of zinc oxide nanorods on glass substrates using optimum hydrothermal synthesis technique
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
This paper reported an optimized hydrothermal synthesis technique to grow zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods vertically on the normal microscope glass. ZnO nanorods exhibited various advantages such as strong binding energy, non toxicity, large surface to volume ratio and versatility for optical detections. However, the growth of nanorods which aligned vertically on the glass substrates is rather complicated. It required a thorough process based on optimized concentration, growth duration, growth temperature and solvent variations. The morphological structure result has shown an exceptional vertical growth of the nanorods on the glass surfaces which increase the nanorods density. The optimized synthesis technique produced high density ZnO nanorods up to 3 x 1013 nanorods/m2 which is double as compared to conventional synthesis technique. © 2021 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Glass substrate, Hydrothermal, Vertical growth, ZnO nanorods
Divisions
sch_ecs
Funders
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
Publication Title
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Volume
23
Issue
2
Publisher
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science