Stacking faults-induced quenching of the UV luminescence in ZnO

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3033-3038

  Sieber, Brigitte ^a   Addad, Ahmed ^a   Szunerits, Sabine ^b   Boukherroub, Rabah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND ELECTRONS; HYDROTHERMAL TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; UV LUMINESCENCE; ZNO; ZNO NANOROD;

DEFECTS; LUMINESCENCE; NANORODS; STACKING FAULTS; ZINC OXIDE;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77958486981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz101267t     Document Type: Article

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