Synthesis of ZnO tetrapods for flexible and transparent UV sensors

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Rackauskas, Simas ^a   Mustonen, Kimmo ^a   Järvinen, Terhi ^a   Mattila, Marco ^a   Klimova, Olga ^b   Jiang, Hua ^a   Tolochko, Oleg ^b   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ATMOSPHERE; CURRENT INCREASE; GAS PHASE OXIDATION; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; UV IRRADIATION; UV SENSOR; VERTICAL FLOWS; VISIBLE RANGE; ZNO;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

NANOMATERIAL; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84857412301     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/9/095502     Document Type: Article

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