Low-temperature synthesis and characterization of GaN nanocrystals from gallium trichloride precursor

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3484-3489

  Liu, F S ^a,b   Liu, Q L ^a   Liang, J K ^a,c   Song, G B ^a,b   Yang, L T ^a   Luo, J ^a   Zhou, Y Q ^a   Dong, H W ^a   Rao, G H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POWDERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BAND EDGE EMISSION; GALLIUM TRICHLORIDE; LOW TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; PRECURSOR; RAMAN BACKSCATTERING SPECTRA; WURTZITE TYPE STRUCTURE;

GALLIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 12844261794     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2004.0448     Document Type: Article

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