Background
The sensor is widely applied to the fields of smart home, safety production, environmental protection, national defense and the like, and particularly, the Si-based sensor is most widely applied. However, the existing silicon-based sensor is usually made by taking a Si nano array obtained by etching a Si substrate as a sensitive material and further adding Au electrodes and leads, wherein the Si nano array has a significant influence on the detection sensitivity, so that the minimum detection limit of the sensor containing the Si nano array is in the order of 100ppm, which is far inferior to the level of 5-10ppm of other semiconductor sensors, and in addition, the response time is longer, generally 30-50 s.
ZnO is a wide-bandgap metal oxide with a hexagonal wurtzite structure, has the advantages of cheap and easily-obtained raw materials, simple preparation process, excellent photoelectric property, excellent piezoelectricity, gas sensitivity, pressure sensitivity and humidity sensitivity, and is another semiconductor material commonly used for manufacturing sensors besides Si. The ZnO-based sensor has the advantages of high response speed, high integration degree, low power, high sensitivity, good selectivity and the like, and has a long research history and a relatively mature development technology. The minimum detection limit of the existing Au/ZnO nano-column array sensor is 10ppm, which is obviously superior to that of a Si nano-column array sensor, however, the uniformity of the sensor and the distribution uniformity of the nano-column array need to be further improved, the ZnO crystal quality is poor, the full width at half maximum of an X-ray rocking curve is generally more than 200arcsec, and a larger promotion space exists.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a ZnO nanocrystal reinforced Si nanorod array sensitive material, a preparation method thereof and a sensor prepared from the sensitive material.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a ZnO nanocrystal enhanced Si nanorod array sensitive material comprises a Si substrate, a Si nanorod array, ZnO nanocrystals and an electrode material, wherein the Si substrate is provided with the Si nanorod array, the surface of the Si nanorod array is distributed with the ZnO nanocrystals, and the top of the Si nanorod array is further provided with the electrode material.
Preferably, the Si substrate is an n-type or p-type Si single crystal wafer, the full width at half maximum of an X-ray rocking curve is less than 50arcsec, and the resistance is less than 5 omega.
Preferably, the particle size of the ZnO nanocrystal is 2-10 nm.
Preferably, the diameter of the Si nano-columns is 50-990nm, the distance between the Si nano-columns is 30-1500nm, and the cross-sectional shape of the Si nano-columns is centrosymmetric, such as a central circle, a square, a regular polygon and the like.
Preferably, the electrode material comprises at least one of Pt, Au, Ni; further, the electrode is Au/Ni alloy or Pt/Au/Ni alloy.
A preparation method of the ZnO nanocrystal reinforced Si nanorod array sensitive material comprises the following steps:
(1) spin-coating photoresist on the surface of the Si substrate, exposing, developing and etching to obtain a Si nano-pillar array;
(2) growing ZnO nanocrystals on the surface of the Si nanorod array;
(3) and protecting the part except the electrode deposition area by using a mask plate, and then evaporating an electrode in the electrode deposition area.
In the step (1), the spin coating process may adopt a method known in the art, the exposure and development process uses a metal plate as a mask plate, the etching process is preferably ICP etching, and the etching depth is 200-. Further, the etching gas is SF6/C4F8 mixed gas.
Preferably, in the step (2), the ZnO nanocrystals are grown by the following process: placing the Si nano-column array prepared in the step (1) in a ZnO sol-gel solution, using a pulling machine to pull for 1-3 times at the speed of 1-3mm/min, naturally drying, then placing the silicon nano-column array in a resistance furnace, and annealing for 30-120min at the temperature of 150-; further, the resistance furnace is a box-type resistance furnace.
More preferably, the ZnO sol-gel solution is a zinc acetate/ethanol mixed solution.
A ZnO nanocrystalline reinforced Si nanometer column array sensor comprises the sensitive material and wires led out from the periphery of the sensitive material; further, the wire is an Au wire.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) by controlling the order and the uniformity of the Si nano-pillar array, the distribution uniformity of ZnO nanocrystals is regulated and controlled, and the overall performance of the sensor is improved;
(2) ZnO nanocrystals are distributed on the surface of the Si nano-column, and the sensitivity of the sensor is improved by utilizing the special optical characteristics of the Si nano-column array and the local surface sensitivity of the ZnO nanocrystals.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below with reference to the figures and specific embodiments.
Example 1
A preparation method of a ZnO nanocrystal reinforced Si nanorod array sensitive material comprises the following steps:
(1) preparing a Si nano-pillar array 11: selecting a commercially available p-type Si single crystal wafer with an X-ray rocking curve half-height width smaller than 50arcsec and a resistance smaller than 5 omega as a substrate 10, spin-coating photoresist on the surface of the substrate, taking a metal plate as a mask plate for exposure and development, and then carrying out ICP (inductively coupled plasma) etching with the etching depth of 1000nm to obtain a Si nano-pillar array 11 with the diameter of 250nm and the distance of 400nm from each other, as shown in figure 1;
(2) placing the Si nano-pillar array 11 prepared in the step (1) into a zinc acetate/ethanol mixed solution, pulling for 1 time at a speed of 2mm/min by using a pulling machine, naturally drying, then placing into a resistance furnace, and annealing at 500 ℃ for 30min to obtain ZnO nanocrystals 12 with the particle size of 5nm distributed on the surface of the Si nano-pillar array 11, as shown in FIG. 2;
(3) blocking the Si nano-pillar array by using a mask plate to expose an electrode deposition area, and then evaporating an Au/Ni electrode 13 by adopting a thermal evaporation method to prepare the sensitive material shown in figure 3.
Example 2
The ZnO nanocrystal reinforced Si nanorod array sensitive material was prepared according to the method of example 1, except that the p-type Si single crystal wafer in step (1) was replaced with an n-type Si single crystal wafer of the same specification.
The above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and are not limited thereto, and any modification or equivalent replacement without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be covered within the technical solutions of the present invention.