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Piezoelectric nanogenerator with 3D-ZnO micro-thornyballs prepared by chemical vapour deposition

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Piezoelectric nanogenerators have been intensively developed in terms of their materials and applications; however, only modest structural progress has been made due to limitations in the growth mechanisms of nano-materials. In this work, a piezoelectric nanogenerator based on ZnO micro-thornyballs (ZMTBs) was introduced. ZMTBs were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition method without the presence of any seed layers or substrates. Electrical characterization was subsequently performed to reveal the characteristics of the contacts formed between the ZnO micro-thornyballs and the copper electrode. The electric output ability of the ZNTTs nanogenerators has been studied in reference to the experiment and the numerically calculation.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the NSFC (Project No. 60777009), the Key Laboratory Projects of The Education Department of Liaoning Province (Project No. 20060131), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project No. DUT11LK46), the Doctoral Project by the China Ministry of Education (Project No. 20070141038), and Open Fund by Laboratory for MEMS, Liaoning Province.

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    Bing Yin, Yu Qiu, Heqiu Zhang, Jiuyu Ji, Jixue Lei, Yingmin Luo, Yu Zhao & Lizhong Hu

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Yin, B., Qiu, Y., Zhang, H. et al. Piezoelectric nanogenerator with 3D-ZnO micro-thornyballs prepared by chemical vapour deposition. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 26, 742–746 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-014-2458-1

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