Growth of “moth‐eye” ZnO nanostructures on Si(111), c‐Al2O3, ZnO and steel substrates by pulsed laser deposition

Abstract Self‐forming, vertically‐aligned, arrays of black‐body‐like ZnO moth‐eye nanostructures were grown on Si(111), c‐Al 2 O 3 , ZnO and high manganese austenitic steel substrates using Pulsed Laser Deposition. X‐ray diffraction (XRD) revealed the nanostructures to be well‐crystallised wurtzite ZnO with strong preferential c‐axis crystallographic orientation along the growth direction for all the substrates. Cathodoluminescence (CL) …