The invention relates to a preparation method for a ZnO/ZnS heterostructure nanocone array, and the method is used for solving the problem that the existing nanometer materials with a special appearance structure have higher turn-on field or threshold field to cause poor field emission property. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, cleaning a monocrystalline silicon slice, sputtering a nanometer gold film on the monocrystalline silicon slice so as to be used as a silicon substrate; 2, mixing zinc oxide powder and zinc sulfide powder so as to be used as a source material, taking germanium powder as a catalyst, placing the source material in a high temperature-resistant container and in a high-temperature reacting furnace, and placing the catalyst and the silicon substrate at the lower course of the source material; 3, sealing the high-temperature reacting furnace, vacuumizing, introducing inert gas, heating, keeping temperature constant, naturally cooling to the room temperature, stopping the introduction of the inert gas, and taking out the silicon substrate, thus obtaining yellowish white powder, namely the nanocone array. The nanocone array prepared by the invention has the advantages of extremely low turn-on field and extremely low threshold field; and the method is used for the field of nanometer materials.