Defect emissions in ZnO nanostructures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5925, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Djurisic A B ^a   Leung, Y H ^a   Tarn, K H ^a   Ding, L ^b   Ge, W K ^b   Chan, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Metal oxides; Nanostructures

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; ENERGY GAP; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS;

DEFECT EMISSIONS; EMISSION PEAK; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 31844442243     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.614047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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