Increase of Mn solubility with decreasing grain size in ZnO

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1963-1970

  Straumal, Boris ^a,b   Baretzky, Brigitte ^a   Mazilkin, Andrei ^b   Protasova, Svetlana ^b   Myatiev, Ata ^c   Straumal, Petr ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grain boundaries; Grain size; Impurities; Surfaces; ZnO

Indexed keywords

CUBIC LATTICES; DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM; FREE SURFACES; GRAIN SIZE; LATTICE PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC BEHAVIOURS; MN CONTENTS; MN-DOPED ZNO; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATIONS; SECOND PHASE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SIZE DEPENDENCES; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; WET CHEMISTRY METHODS; WURZITE; ZNO; ZNO FILMS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY; TERNARY SYSTEMS; ZINC OXIDE;

MANGANESE;

EID: 67049143293     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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