ZnO nanowire-based antireflective coatings with double-nanotextured surfaces.
High-aspect-ratio nanotextured surfaces with different morphologies (straight, core-shell type, and core-branch type nanowires) are prepared by a hydrothermal method of ZnO nanowires, followed by means of RF sputtering for core-shell type nanowires and e-beam evaporation for branch-type nanowires. The structural analysis showed that the MgO has highly preferred orientation along the ⟨111⟩ and ⟨200⟩ direction, respectively, and the crystalline continuity between the ZnO and MgO layers were also showed. Compared with ZnO nanowires, the MgO/ZnO samples drastically suppress broad and omnidirection reflection, which ascribes to the refractive-index modulation along the lateral direction of nanowires growth as well as the vertical direction. It was also shown that morphology could have a substantial influence on the antireflection property. These results suggest that double-nanotextured surface is one of the promising structures for antireflective surfaces without fine control in nanowire morphology.
School of Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering, KIST-UNIST-Ulsan Center for Convergent Materials, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) , Ulsan, 689-798, Korea.
Jae Won
JW
Lee
Byeong Uk
BU
Ye
Dong-yeong
DY
Kim
Jong Kyu
JK
Kim
Jong
J
Heo
Hu Young
HY
Jeong
Myung Hwa
MH
Kim
Won Jun
WJ
Choi
Jeong Min
JM
Baik