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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2013

Muhammad Sajjad ,
Xiaoyan Peng ,
Jin Chu ,
Hongxin Zhang  and
Peter Feng
Muhammad Sajjad
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8377
Xiaoyan Peng
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8377
Jin Chu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8377
Hongxin Zhang
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
Peter Feng*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8377
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: p.feng@upr.edu
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Abstract

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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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 28 , Issue 13: FOCUS ISSUE: Frontiers in Thin-Film Epitaxy and Nanostructured Materials , 14 July 2013 , pp. 1747 - 1752
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2013 

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