A simple route to fabricate high sensibility gas sensors based on erbium doped ZnO nanocrystals

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 384, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 580-584

  Zhang, Xian Hua ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Wu, Yaping ^b   Xie, Zhaoxiong ^a   Kang, Junyong ^b   Zheng, Lansun ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gas sensors; Lanthanides; Photoluminescence; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; GAS DETECTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SENSORS;

DOPED ZNO; ER-DOPED; ERBIUM DOPED; HIGH ACTIVITY; PURE ZNO; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SENSING PROPERTY; SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD; VISIBLE EMISSIONS; ZNO;

ZINC OXIDE;

ERBIUM; NANOCRYSTAL; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSIBILITY; SENSOR; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959749328     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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