title: Aqueous Phase Synthesis and Enhanced Field Emission Properties of ZnO-Sulfide Heterojunction Nanowires.
abstract: ZnO-CdS, ZnO-ZnS, and ZnO-Ag2S core-shell heterojunction structures were fabricated using low-temperature, facile and simple aqueous solution approaches. The polycrystalline sulfide shells effectively enhance the field emission (FE) properties of ZnO nanowires arrays (NWAs). This results from the formation of the staggered gap heterointerface (ZnO-sulfide) which could lead to an energy well at the interfaces. Hence, electrons can be collected when an electric field is applied. It is observed that ZnO-ZnS NWAs have the lowest turn-on field (3.0 Vμm(-1)), compared with ZnO-CdS NWAs (6.3 Vμm(-1)) and ZnO-Ag2S NWAs (5.0 Vμm(-1)). This may be associated with the pyramid-like ZnS shell which increases the number of emission nanotips. Moreover, the Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) plot displays a nonlinear relationship in the low and high electric field regions caused by the double well potential effect of the heterojunction structures.
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science &Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Guojing
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Advanced Materials (MOE), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Zhengcao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science &Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Mingyang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science &Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Chienhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science &Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Shasha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science &Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Jiecui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liao