Spectral and nonlinear optical characteristics of ZnO nanocomposites

Science of Advanced Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-137

  Irimpan, Litty ^a,b   Nampoori, V P N ^b   Radhakrishnan, P ^b  

^a St Mary s College   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Fluorescence emission; Nanocomposites; Nonlinear absorption coefficient; Two photon absorption and nonlinear refractive index

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349309623     PISSN: 19472935     EISSN: 19472943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/sam.2010.1083     Document Type: Review

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