- Tytuł:
- Template-assisted fabrication of tin and antimony based nanowire arrays
- Autorzy:
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Sulka, Grzegorz
Kurowska-Tabor, Elżbieta
Jaskuła, Marian
Zaraska, Leszek - Opis:
- Antimony nanowires with diameters ranging from 35 nm to 320 nm were successfully prepared by simple, galvanostatic electrodeposition inside the pores of anodic alumina membranes from a citrate based electrolyte. The use of the potassium antimonyl tartrate electrolyte for electrodeposition results in the formation of $Sb/Sb_{2}O_{3}$ nanowires. The structural features of the nanowire arrays were investigated by FE-SEM, and the nanowire composition was confirmed by EDS and XRD measurements. A distinct peak at about $27.5^{o}$ in the XRD pattern recorded for nanowires formed in the tartrate electrolyte was attributed to the presence of co-deposited $Sb_{2}O_{3}$. Three types of dense arrays of Sn-SnSb nanowires with diameters ranging from 82 nm to 325 nm were also synthesized by DC galvanostatic electrodeposition into the anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes for the first time. Only Sn and SnSb peaks appeared in the XRD pattern and both phases seem to have a relatively high degree of crystallinity. The influence of current density applied during electrodeposition on the composition of nanowires was investigated. It was found that the Sb content in fabricated nanowires decreases with increasing current density. The diameters of all synthesized nanowires roughly correspond to the dimensions of the nanochannels of AAO templates used for electrodeposition.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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