Synthesis of epitaxial metal oxide nanocrystals via a phase separation approach

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 5139-5146

  Bogle, Kashinath A ^a   Anbusathaiah, Varatharajan ^a   Arredondo, Miryam ^a   Lin, Jiunn Yuan ^b   Chu, Ying Hao ^c   Oneill, Christopher ^d   Gregg, John M ^d   Castell, Martin R ^e   Nagarajan, Valanoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Institute of Physics   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epitaxial nanocrystals; metal oxide; phase separation; pulse laser deposition; volatization

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OXYGEN; BI-BASED; DEPOSITION TIME; EPITAXIAL METAL OXIDES; EPITAXIAL NANOCRYSTALS; IN-VACUUM; MAGNETIC NANOCRYSTALS; MATRIX; METAL OXIDE; PEROVSKITE PHASE; PULSE LASER DEPOSITION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SHAPE AND SIZE; SUBSEQUENT COOLING; TERNARY OXIDE SYSTEMS; THIN-FILM PROCESSING; VOLATIZATION;

MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 77957318569     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1010123     Document Type: Article

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