Defects in three-dimensional spherical assemblies of Ni-doped ZnO nanocrystals

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3543-3550

  Barick, Kanhu Charan ^a   Aslam, Mohammed ^a   Wu, Jinsong ^b   Dravid, Vinayak P ^b   Bahadur, Dhirendra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL MODE; CONCENTRATION OF; GREEN EMISSIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HRTEM ANALYSIS; NI-DOPED; OPTICAL PHONONS; ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; OXIDATION STATE; PL INTENSITY; RAMAN SPECTRA; SOLUTION PHASE SYNTHESIS; SPHERICAL ASSEMBLY; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; ZNO; ZNO STRUCTURES;

DEFECTS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); DOPING (ADDITIVES); METAL IONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPHERES; STACKING FAULTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 77952654130     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0446     Document Type: Article

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