Nanostructured TiO2 films with 2 eV optical gaps

Advanced Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1842-1846

  Barborini, Emanuele ^a   Conti, Anna Maria ^a   Kholmanov, Iskandar ^a   Piseri, Paolo ^a   Podestà, Alessandro ^a   Milani, Paolo ^a   Cepek, Cinzia ^b   Sakho, Omar ^b   Macovez, Roberto ^b   Sancrotti, Massimo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PYROLYSIS; REDUCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS; TITANIUM CARBIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON-BASED CONTAMINANTS; CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION; CLUSTER BEAM DEPOSITION; NANOMETER SCALES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 23744492078     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200401169     Document Type: Article

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