Effect of annealing temperature on photocatalytic activity of ZnO thin films prepared by sol-gel method

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-106

  Lv, Jianguo ^a,b   Gong, Wanbing ^a   Huang, Kai ^c   Zhu, Jianbo ^a   Meng, Fanming ^b   Song, Xueping ^b   Sun, Zhaoqi ^b  

^a HEFEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ANHUI JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Methyl orange; Photocatalytic activity; Sol gel method; ZnO thin films

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETERS; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; METHYL ORANGE; OXYGEN DEFECT; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; RMS ROUGHNESS; SOL-GEL METHODS; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; UV ILLUMINATIONS; ZINC OXIDE THIN FILMS; ZNO; ZNO THIN FILM;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AZO DYES; DEGRADATION; GELS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL FILMS; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; QUARTZ; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79960360300     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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