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Caption:
Smiling in Nanospace (Nano=sheep)
Onur Ergen
Advisor: Alex Zettl
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Laboratory website: http://research.physics.berkeley.edu/zettl/
Technique: Scanning Electron Microscopy
Description:
ZnO nanowires are grown on Cu wire without any catalysis. These nanowire assemblies serve as optically active multi-purpose templates. Various solar and piezoelectric energy harvesting devices can be prepared using this architecture. Moreover, it is an essential building block for variety of novel electrochemical and photochemical devices.
Funding Source: This research was supported in part by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, which provided for SEM imaging under an LDRD award, and, within the sp2-bonded materials program (KC2207), for the design of the experiment and material characterization; the National Science Foundation under Grant 1542741, which provided for photovoltaic response characterization; and by the Office of Naval Research (MURI) under Grant N00014-12-1-1008, which provided for nanowire growth.
