The role of substrate temperature on the properties of nanocrystalline Mo doped ZnO thin films by spray pyrolysis

Ceramics International

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3875-3883

  Swapna, R ^a   Santhosh Kumar, M C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

A. Films; B. Grain size; C. Electrical conductivity; C. Optical properties; D. ZnO

Indexed keywords

DEEP LEVEL EMISSION; DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; GRAIN SIZE; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTICAL PARAMETER; OPTICAL QUALITIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PREFERRED GRAIN ORIENTATIONS; RMS ROUGHNESS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPRAY-PYROLYSIS TECHNIQUES; STRESS VALUES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; VARIOUS SUBSTRATES; VISIBLE REGION; WURTZITE STRUCTURE; ZNO;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOLYBDENUM; OPACITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPRAY PYROLYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84859751022     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.01.039     Document Type: Article

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