STRUCTURE AND GROWTH-MECHANISM OF TETRAPOD-LIKE ZNO PARTICLES

Authors
NISHIO K ISSHIKI T KITANO M SHIOJIRI M
Citation
K. Nishio et al., STRUCTURE AND GROWTH-MECHANISM OF TETRAPOD-LIKE ZNO PARTICLES, Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties, 76(4), 1997, pp. 889-904
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Material Science","Physics, Condensed Matter","Metallurgy & Metallurigical Engineering
Journal title
Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties → ACNP
ISSN journal
13642804
Volume
76
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
889 - 904
Database
ISI
SICI code
1364-2804(1997)76:4<889:SAGOTZ>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Tetrapod-like ZnO particles having four legs shorter than a micrometre have been observed by transmission electron microscopy and electron d iffractometry. The particles are composed of six or more wurtzite-type elements. Four of them make legs and others form (11 (2) over bar 2) twins with the legs. Particles composed of only four wurtzite-type leg s are also observed to form three (11 (2) over bar 4) twins among them . We propose a growth model that the tetrapod-like ZnO particle grows from wurtzite-type multiple twins induced in a zincblende-type nucleus , taking account of the combination of the slips caused at the phase t ransformation.