Anomalous behavior of the optical band gap of nanocrystalline zinc oxide thin films

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1425-1428

  Srikant, V ^a   Clarke, D R ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; FUSED SILICA; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; THIN FILMS;

OPTICAL BAND GAP; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 0031166469     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1997.0193     Document Type: Article

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