Direct observation of Li diffusion in Li-doped ZnO nanowires

Guohua Li; Lei Yu; Bethany M. Hudak; Yao Jen Chang; Hyeonjun Baek; Abhishek Sundararajan; Douglas R. Strachan; Gyu Chul Yi; Beth S. Guiton

doi:10.1088/2053-1591/3/5/054001

Direct observation of Li diffusion in Li-doped ZnO nanowires

Guohua Li, Lei Yu, Bethany M. Hudak, Yao Jen Chang, Hyeonjun Baek, Abhishek Sundararajan, Douglas R. Strachan, Gyu Chul Yi, Beth S. Guiton

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Abstract

The direct observation of Li diffusion in Li-doped zinc oxide nanowires (NWs) was realized by using in situ heating in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). A continuous increase of low atomic mass regions within a single NW was observed between 200 ° C and 600 ° C when heated in vacuum, which was explained by the conversion of interstitial to substitutional Li in the ZnO NW host lattice. A kick-out mechanism is introduced to explain the migration and conversion of the interstitial Li (Li_i) to Zn-site substitutional Li (Li_Zn), and this mechanism is verified with low-temperature (11 K) photoluminescence measurements on as-grown and annealed Li-doped zinc oxide NWs, as well as the observation of an increase of NW surface roughing with applied bias.

Original language	English
Article number	054001
Journal	Materials Research Express
Volume	3
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/3/5/054001
State	Published - May 2016

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This research was funded by the Global Research Laboratory Program (NRF-2015K1A1A2033332) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)(G-CY, GL, HB), supported by NASA Kentucky under NASA award No: NNX13AB12A (LY, Y-JC, BSG), and NASA award No: NNX10AL96H (BMH), and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, US Department of Energy (BSG). G Li also acknowledges support from Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 1608085ME99).

Funders	Funder number
Michigan State University-U.S. Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	NNX13AB12A, NNX10AL96H
Kentucky Space Grant Consortium
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering
National Research Foundation of Korea
Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province	1608085ME99

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Polymers and Plastics
Metals and Alloys

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