Chemical vapor synthesis of fluorine-doped SnO2 (FTO) nanoparticles

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2579-2588

  Suffner, Jens ^a,b   Ágoston, Péter ^a   Kling, Jens ^a   Hahn, Horst ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functional theory (DFT); Point defects; Tin oxide; Transparent conducting oxides (TCO); Vapor phase synthesis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR SYNTHESIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DIFLUOROMETHANE; FLUORINE CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORINE-DOPED; FOURIER TRANSFORMED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERSTITIAL PAIRS; LATTICE SITES; NANOCRYSTALLINES; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; POINT DEFECT MODELS; TETRAMETHYLTIN; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; VAPOR PHASE SYNTHESIS;

ASTATINE; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORINE; GAS ADSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; POINT DEFECTS; PYROLYSIS; RIETVELD METHOD; RIETVELD REFINEMENT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIN; TIN OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

FLUORINE; NANOPARTICLE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; TIN OXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 78751626618     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-009-9827-3     Document Type: Article

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