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Design and installation of a CO2-pulsed laser plasma deposition system for the growth of mass product nanostructures

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A CO2-pulsed laser plasma deposition (CO2-PLD) system is installed and used for the quick synthesis of various hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures. Each part of the CO2-PLD system, such as focusing of laser beam on the target surface, sample holder, shutter, heater, type of the gas, and gas flow rate, can be easily controlled independently to fit different experimental conditions. After installation of the system, a series of experiments were conducted using hBN and ZnO targets. Scanning electron microscopy images showed that the entire surface (2 × 2 cm2) of the substrate is covered with the conical- and disk-shaped BN nanostructures and web-like highly dense ZnO nanowires, indicating a significantly short-time approach to grow mass product nanostructures. Raman spectroscopy identified the hexagonal structure of the synthesized samples.

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This work is partially supported by NSF-DMR (0706147). We would like to thank Dr. Carlos Cabrera and his staff for SEM measurements.

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  1. Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936-8377, USA

    Muhammad Sajjad, Xiaoyan Peng, Jin Chu & Peter Feng

  2. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA

    Hongxin Zhang

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Sajjad, M., Peng, X., Chu, J. et al. Design and installation of a CO2-pulsed laser plasma deposition system for the growth of mass product nanostructures. Journal of Materials Research 28, 1747–1752 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2013.58

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