Influence of gas flow on structural and optical properties of ZnO submicron particles grown on Au nano thin films by vapor phase transport

가스 유입량이 기상이동법으로 금 나노박막위에 성장된 산화아연 입자에 미치는 영향

ZnO submicron particles were grown on Au-catalyzed Si substrate by a vapor phase transport (VPT) growth process under different mixture gas ratio at growth temperature of $900^{\circ}C$. The structural and optical properties of the ZnO submicron particles were investigated by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and photoluminescence (PL). The ZnO submicron particles could be clustered with the $O_2/Ar$ mixture gas ratio(%) higher than 10%, and it was mainly determined by the gas ambient. Particularly, when the $O_2/Ar$ mixture gas ratio was 30%, it was observed the ZnO submicron particles with diameters in the range of 125 to 500 nm and the narrowest full width at half maximum (FWHM) of XRD and PL spectra with $0.121^{\circ}$ and 92 meV, respectively. It was found that the structural and optical properties of the ZnO submicron particles were improved with increasing the $O_2/Ar$ mixture gas ratio through the XRD and PL spectra.