scholarly journals Sensitivity Improvement of Urchin-Like ZnO Nanostructures Using Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in MgZnO/ZnO

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (23) ◽  
pp. 5195
Author(s):  
So-Young Bak ◽  
Jeongseok Lee ◽  
Yoojong Kim ◽  
Se-Hyeong Lee ◽  
Kyoungwan Woo ◽  
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This paper introduces a strategy for improving the sensitivity of a gas sensor to NO2 gas. The gas sensor was fabricated using urchin-like ZnO nanostructures grown on MgO particles via vapor-phase growth and decorated with MgZnO nanoparticles via a sol-gel process. The urchin-like ZnO gas sensor decorated with MgZnO showed higher sensitivity to NO2 gas than a pristine urchin-like ZnO gas sensor. When ZnO and MgZnO form a heterojunction, a two-dimensional electron gas is generated. This improves the performance of the fabricated gas sensor. The growth morphology, atomic composition, and phase structure were confirmed through field-emission scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction, respectively.

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jine Zhang ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Xiaobing Chen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Shaojin Qi ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Orion Ciftja

AbstractWe consider the stability of the circular Fermi surface of a two-dimensional electron gas system against an elliptical deformation induced by an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential. We use the jellium approximation for the neutralizing background and treat the electrons as fully spin-polarized (spinless) particles with a constant isotropic (effective) mass. The anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential considered in this work is inspired from studies of two-dimensional electron gas systems in the quantum Hall regime. We use a Hartree–Fock procedure to obtain analytical results for two special Fermi liquid quantum electronic phases. The first one corresponds to a system with circular Fermi surface while the second one corresponds to a liquid anisotropic phase with a specific elliptical deformation of the Fermi surface that gives rise to the lowest possible potential energy of the system. The results obtained suggest that, for the most general situations, neither of these two Fermi liquid phases represent the lowest energy state of the system within the framework of the family of states considered in this work. The lowest energy phase is one with an optimal elliptical deformation whose specific value is determined by a complex interplay of many factors including the density of the system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthold Jäck ◽  
Fabian Zinser ◽  
Elio J. König ◽  
Sune N. P. Wissing ◽  
Anke B. Schmidt ◽  
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