Zinc Oxide Nanostructures

Preface

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a semiconducting material with more

interesting and important properties than most other materials.

This has resulted in a vast number of scientiic publications on

ZnO, particularly since 2000. The reason for this is that ZnO can

be realized very easily in many different nanostructures. In this

book, we will restrict ourselves to the realization of nanowires,

nanotubes, dots, and quantum wells.

The irst chapter, by A. Bakin et al. from Technische Universität

Braunschweig, Germany, describes different methods to fabricate

ZnO nanostructures.

The optical properties of ZnO have been of special interest for

many decades. In Chapter 2, M. Lorenz’s group from Universität

Leipzig, Germany, gives a detailed description ...