The electron beam irradiation damage on nanomaterials synthesized by hydrothermal and thermal evaporation methods-An example of ZnS nanostructures

Micron

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 290-298

  Xu, Yeming ^a,b   Shi, Liang ^b   Zhang, Xitian ^a   Wong, Kawai ^b   Li, Quan ^a,b  

^a HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electron beam irradiation; Structure degradation; ZnS nanobelt; ZnS nanosheet

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOBELTS; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC SULFIDE;

DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT DAMAGES; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; OXIDATION MECHANISMS; STRUCTURE DEGRADATION; THERMAL EVAPORATION METHOD;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650721236     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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