Growth kinetics of ZnO nanocrystallites: Structural, optical and photoluminescence properties tuned by thermal annealing

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 624-630

  Singh, R G ^a   Singh, Fouran ^b   Kumar, Vinod ^c   Mehra, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (India)

^c GURUKUL KANGRI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Coalescence phenomena; LSW theory; Photoluminescence; Sol gel; ZnO

Indexed keywords

COARSENING KINETICS; COARSENING PROCESS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; LATTICE PARAMETERS; LSW THEORY; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; PL SPECTRA; SOL-GEL SPIN COATING; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL-ANNEALING; ZNO; ZNO THIN FILM;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COALESCENCE; COARSENING; COATINGS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; GELS; GROWTH KINETICS; NANOCRYSTALLITES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOL-GELS; SOLS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOL-GEL PROCESS;

EID: 79951677535     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cap.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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