ZnO nanostructures by atomic layer deposition method

Nanotechnology is perceived as one of the innovatory disciplines of the XXI century science and the main direction of the economic and technological progress in the nearest years. Nowadays exist many ways of creating nanostructures and the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) method is one of them. This method, being a self-limiting growth process, can homogeneously cover the surfaces having very irregular shapes in the distinction from other methods. It is also possible a penetration of nanopores in the porous matrices. In this paper we introduce the innovatory use of the ALD method to receive the nanostructures of zinc oxide, where the execution of quantum dots will be presented. The unusual passivation of the surface of ZnTe nanowires received by the MBE method will also be shown. Finally we introduce some surprising types of substrates used to the low dimensional structures' creation and a potential application of the received ZnO nanostructures.