Rapid Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods on a Magnetron Sputtered Thick ZnO Seed Layer

In this work, we report rapid hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods on a magnetron sputtered thick ZnO seed layer. The ZnO seed layer on the glass substrarte is monocrystalline and formed by 600 °C annealing for 1 hour after magnetic sputtering. The morphology of the ZnO grain in the ZnO seed layer plays a critical role in the growing of the ZnO nanorods, and the slant ZnO grain results in the slant ZnO nanorod and connected ZnO nonrods. It is found that the average growth of the ZnO nanorods is ~75 nm/minute. The rapid grow rate may be owing to the monocrystallie and the pure water solution of the growth solution.