Structural and optical properties of sol-gel-derived Au/BaTiO3 nanocomposite thin films

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 758-767

  Wang, Changhai ^a   Hu, Jiangfeng ^a   Chow, Gan Moog ^a   Hsu, Pei Cheng ^b   Hwu, Yeu Kuang ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANNEALING; BARIUM TITANATE; GOLD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOL-GELS; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; POST-DEPOSITION ANNEALING;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 29744467954     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2005.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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