Piezoelectric ZnO Nanostructure for Energy Harvesting, Volume 1

Download or read book Piezoelectric ZnO Nanostructure for Energy Harvesting, Volume 1 written by Yamin Leprince-Wang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, ZnO as an important II-VI semiconductor has attracted much attention within the scientific community over the world owing to its numerous unique and prosperous properties. This material, considered as a “future material”, especially in nanostructural format, has aroused many interesting research works due to its large range of applications in electronics, photonics, acoustics, energy and sensing. The bio-compatibility, piezoelectricity & low cost fabrication make ZnO nanostructure a very promising material for energy harvesting.