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Abstract

Nanocrystalline zinc oxide has wide range of applications such as high power transparent thin film transistors, optical waveguides, conductive gas sensors and transparent electrodes for photo-electrochemical applications. In this paper, we demonstrated the fabrication of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods (NRs) with ZnO seed layers using a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method on glass substrates. This paper reports the influence of ZnO seed layer conditions which are annealed ZnO seed layer and as-prepared ZnO seed layer on the morphological, structural and optical properties of ZnO NRs. We found that annealing the seed layer at 500ºC changes the ZnO NRs morphological and optical properties but remaining the structural property.