Fabrication of ZnO nanoparticles-embedded hydrogenated diamond-like carbon films by electrochemical deposition technique

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/5/058106

Abstract ZnO nanoparticles-embedded hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (ZnO-DLC) films have been prepared by electrochemical deposition in ambient conditions. The morphology, composition, and microstructure of the films have been investigated. The results show that the resultant films are hydrogenated diamond-like carbon films embedded with ZnO nanoparticles in wurtzite structure, and the content and size of the ZnO nanoparticles increase with increasing deposition voltage, which are confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman, and transmission electron microscope (TEM). Furthermore, a possible mechanism used to describe the growth process of ZnO-DLC films by electrochemical deposition is also discussed.

Keywords: diamond-like carbon ZnO nanoparticles electrochemical deposition microstructure

Received: 04 December 2012
Revised: 02 January 2013
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PACS:	81.15.Pq	(Electrodeposition, electroplating)
	68.55.-a	(Thin film structure and morphology)
	61.46.Df	(Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles ("colloidal" quantum dots but not gate-isolated embedded quantum dots))

Corresponding Authors: Xie Er-Qing
E-mail: xieeq@lzu.edu.cn

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Zhang Pei-Zeng (张培增), Li Rui-Shan (李瑞山), Pan Xiao-Jun (潘效军), Xie Er-Qing (谢二庆) Fabrication of ZnO nanoparticles-embedded hydrogenated diamond-like carbon films by electrochemical deposition technique 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 058106

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