ZnO nanostructured films electrodeposited at room temperature

Abstract

Semiconducting ZnO nanostructured films on fluorine doped tin oxide coated glass with good crystallographic properties were prepared via electrodeposition at room temperature in a zinc nitrate electroplating bath for three current densities, i, (50 <160 ?Acm?2). The morphology and crystallography of the films depended on the electroplating current density. The morphology of the films ranged from flower to fuzzy-spherical structures and the overall diameter of these was of the micron scale. The as grown films demonstrated preferential growth of the (002) plane. © 2013 The Electrochemical Society.