Morphological, optical, and Raman characteristics of ZnO nanoflakes prepared via a sol-gel method

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-147

  Kashif, M ^a   Usman Ali, Syed M ^b,c   Ali, M E ^a   Abdulgafour, H I ^d   Hashim, U ^a   Willander, M ^b   Hassan, Z ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

phonon redshift; precursor and seed solution; sol gel; ZnO nanoflakes structures

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL QUALITIES; DIFFERENT PRECURSORS; HYPOXIC ENVIRONMENTS; LOCAL HEATING; NANOFLAKES; PRECURSOR AND SEED SOLUTION; PRECURSOR CONCENTRATION; RAMAN CHARACTERISTICS; RED SHIFT; RED-SHIFTED; SILICON SUBSTRATES; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; ZNO; ZNO NANOCRYSTAL; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

ALUMINUM COATINGS; GELS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GELS; SOLS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOL-GEL PROCESS;

EID: 84055222556     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201127357     Document Type: Article

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