2001/03/09 by Zhengwei Pan, Z. R. Dai, Zhong Lin Wang · 4 citations
Materials Science · Engineering · #ZnO doping and properties #Nanowire Synthesis and Applications #Ga2O3 and related materials
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1058120
openalex publication_date 2001/03/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Ultralong beltlike (or ribbonlike) nanostructures (so-called nanobelts) were successfully synthesized for semiconducting oxides of zinc, tin, indium, cadmium, and gallium by simply evaporating the desired commercial metal oxide powders at high temperatures. The as-synthesized oxide nanobelts are pure, structurally uniform, and single crystalline, and most of them are free from defects and dislocations. They have a rectanglelike cross section with typical widths of 30 to 300 nanometers, width-to-thickness ratios of 5 to 10, and lengths of up to a few millimeters. The beltlike morphology appears to be a distinctive and common structural characteristic for the family of semiconducting oxides with cations of different valence states and materials of distinct crystallographic structures. The nanobelts could be an ideal system for fully understanding dimensionally confined transport phenomena in functional oxides and building functional devices along individual nanobelts.