Briscoe, JoeGallardo, Diego E.Dunn, Steve2011-04-142011-04-142009-01-01Joe Briscoe, Diego E. Gallardo and Steve Dunn, In situ antimony doping of solution-grown ZnO nanorods, Chemical Communications, issue 10, 2009, pp1273-12751359-7345http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b820797fhttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4128ZnO nanorods are doped with Sb during the aqueous chemical synthesis by addition of Sb acetate dissolved in ethylene glycol. The reliable production of p-type ZnO has been a challenge for some time. This is because the as-grown ZnO is nominally n-type due to intrinsic defects, 1 so holes introduced by acceptor dopants are generally compensated by the high intrinsic free electron density. Despite these difficulties, there have been increasing examples in recent years of p-type ZnO thin films and nanostructures. There is significant interest in producing p-type ZnO nanostructures due to many potential device applications. For example, transistors or diodes based on ZnO nano-homojunctions could be used for transparent electronics, UV optoelectronics and photonicen-UKArticle