Abstract
This letter shows that aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires growth on sapphire substrates is epitaxial and demonstrates the crystallographic relation between the two using grazing incidence synchrotron x-ray diffraction (XRD). The in-plane lattice match between the sapphire and the nanowires was directly probed by using XRD at grazing angles of incidence, where the lattice match between the (0001) plane of the sapphire and the (11−20) plane of the ZnO were observed simultaneously. It will also be shown that gold acts as a catalyst to initiate ZnO nanowire growth, but it does not interfere with the epitaxial mechanism between the nanowires and the sapphire substrate.
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