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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Ag-Doped ZnO Nanoneedles for Ultraviolet Detection

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In this work, Ag-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Ag) nanoneedles (NNs) were synthesized by using a low-cost and facile hydrothermal method. The structure, morphology and optical properties of ZnO:Ag NNs were first investigated in detail. We observed a large number of needle-like ZnO:Ag rods with a top diameter in the range of 70–90 nm. The ZnO:Ag NNs were single-crystalline ZnO with hexagonal wurtzite structure. Furthermore, an ultraviolet photodetector (UV PD) was prepared using the ZnO:Ag NNs as a photoactive layer. The device exhibited excellent response to 365 nm light, and its responsivity, photosensitivity and response time were 24.64 A W−1 at 5 V, 58.42 at 0.5 V and 9.58 s, respectively. Also, the performance of ZnO:Ag NN UV PD was much better than that of the undoped ZnO PD, which was attributed to the improved electrical properties of ZnO NNs after Ag doping.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially financial supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11865002), Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 20212BAB201003), Scientific Research Project of the Education Bureau of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. GJJ190367), the Graduate Innovation Foundation of East China University of Technology (Grant No. YC2021-S624) and Scientific Research Project of East China University of Technology (Grant No. DHBK2019214).

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  1. Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory On Radioactive Geoscience and Big Data Technology, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Min Xu, Zhaolin Yuan, Jianfeng He, Xueyuan Wang & Nengchang Xu

  2. Science and Technology On Electro-Optical Information Security Control Laboratory, 300308, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

    Min Xu, Zhaolin Yuan & Biyi Wang

  3. School of Software & Information Engineering, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Min Xu, Zhaolin Yuan, Jianfeng He, Xueyuan Wang & Nengchang Xu

  4. School of Earth Sciences, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Fengjun Nie

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Xu, M., Yuan, Z., Wang, B. et al. Hydrothermal Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Ag-Doped ZnO Nanoneedles for Ultraviolet Detection. J. Electron. Mater. 51, 7020–7027 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-09931-x

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