Growth of nanopillars in SnO2 thin films by ion irradiation and its gas sensing properties

Advanced Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 501-507

  Sharma, Aditya ^a   Verma, K D ^a   Varshney, Mayora ^a   Singh, Abhinav Pratap ^b   Kumar, Yogesh ^b   Srivastava, Subodh ^c   Vijay, Y K ^c   Asokan, K ^b   Choudhary, R J ^d   Kumar, Ravi ^b,e  

^a SV College   (India)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^d UGC DAE CONSORTIUM FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

AFM; Gas sensing; Irradiation; Nano pillars; PLD; XRD

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953124067     PISSN: 19366612     EISSN: 19367317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/asl.2011.1215     Document Type: Article

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