Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(19), p. 14012-14019, 2017
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01880k
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Twin crystalline ZnO nanorods with tunable amorphous joints are synthesized via a hydrothermal route. We find a strong coupling of acoustic phonon modes to free excitons in these structures. As a result, significant non-radiative transfer of carriers from the conduction band to defect bands occurs, leading to a loss of the near band edge emission intensity below ∼180 K.