Effect of surface defects on the visible emission from ZnO nanoparticles

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2404-2409

  Yadav, Harish Kumar ^a   Sreenivas, K ^a   Gupta, Vinay ^a   Singh, S P ^b   Katiyar, R S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RAMAN SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

HEXAGONAL WURTZITE STRUCTURE; LIQUID-NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; NEAR-BANDGAP EMISSION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 34748817477     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0321     Document Type: Article

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