Electrical properties of individual ZnO nanowires.
The electrical properties of individual ZnO nanowires were investigated for two methods of fabricating nanowire-electrode junctions. The number of carriers in the nanowires was increased by electrostatically doping them by applying a gate voltage. The nanowires were chemically doped by introducing impurities during growth. The Ga-doped nanowires had a linear current-voltage relationship over a wide voltage region. The nanowire-electrode junctions were formed either by using lithography to form electrodes on the nanowire or by using an AFM probe to move a nanowire onto prepared electrodes. With both methods, electrodes made of Ga-doped ZnO were found to make better electrical contact with the nanowire than those made of Ti/Au.
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan. SAKURAI.Makoto@nims.go.jp
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