Abstract
Temperature dependent electron transport properties of individual ZnO mirco/nanowires from 293 K to 473 K were investigated by a four-probe method, and the size dependence of activation energy was studied. The conductivity increased with the increasing temperature, which was attributed to the thermal activations of donors: shallow donors and deep donors. The activation energy related to shallow donors was effectively independent of the radius, suggesting that it was associated with the surface conduction channel of ZnO wire, while a nearly inverse dependence of the activation energy of deep donors on the wire diameter may result from the dielectric confinement effect.
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