Enhancement in the optical transmittance of ZnO:Al powders by Si co-doping

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 725-727

  He, Hai Yan ^a   Guo, Jian Ming ^a  

^a SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; CO-DOPED ZNO; CO-DOPING; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLAR RATIO; OPTIMAL EFFICIENCY; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SI-DOPING; UV-VISIBLE; VISIBLE LIGHT; ZNO;

ALUMINUM; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; POWDERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

SILICON;

SILICON; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 80052726211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2011.0363     Document Type: Article

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