Crystal growth in colloidal tin oxide nanocrystals induced by coalescence at room temperature

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1566-1568

  Leite, E R ^a   Giraldi, T R ^a   Pontes, F M ^a   Longo, E ^a   Beltran A ^b   Andres J ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; CRYSTAL GROWTH; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0042281649     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1605241     Document Type: Article

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