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Published on Web 04/28/2004 Zinc Oxide Quantum Rods Ming Yin,† Yi Gu,† Igor L. Kuskovsky,† Tamar Andelman,† Yimei Zhu,‡ G. F. Neumark,† and Stephen O’Brien*,† Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Columbia Uniersity, New York, New York 10027, and Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookha en National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 Received December 13, 2003; E-mail: so188@ Zinc oxide, ZnO, is a wide band-gap semiconductor with a wide range of possible applications including blue/ultraviolet (UV) optoelectronic devices and piezoelectric devices.1 ZnO nanostruc- tures have attracted great interest because of their potential applications in UV laser technology.2,3 The large ZnO exciton binding energy of 60 mV makes this material an attractive candidate for room-temperature lasing,4,5 and low dimensional nanostructured ZnO offers the possibility of further improving lasing conditions due to quantum confinement effects.5 Within the physical science community, several investigations on the fabrication of ZnO nanostructures and on the optimization of their optical performance have been carried out in the past few years.48 We report a new synthesis of ZnO nanorods by thermal decomposition of zinc acetate in organic solvents in the presence of oleic acid, which produces relatively monodisperse ZnO nanorods Figure 1. X-ray powder diffraction patterns of wurtzite ZnO nanorods. (ZnO quantum rods) with d