Synthesis and characterization of ZnO/NiO p-n heterojunctions: ZnO nanorods grown on NiO thin film by thermal evaporation

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-139

  Chrissanthopoulos, A ^a   Baskoutas, S ^a   Bouropoulos, N ^a,b   Dracopoulos, V ^b   Poulopoulos, P ^a   Yannopoulos, S N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Defects in ZnO; Photoluminescence; Raman scattering; ZnO nanorods

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; AS-GROWN FILMS; HETEROJUNCTION DIODES; LO PHONONS; NIO THIN FILM; OFF-RESONANCE; ORDERED ARRAY; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; RAMAN BANDS; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY; ZNO; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

DEFECTS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; THERMAL EVAPORATION; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 79955470337     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2010.11.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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