Substrate effect on morphology and photoluminescence from ZnO monopods and bipods

Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-136

  Samanta, Pijus Kanti ^a   Chaudhuri, Partha Roy ^b  

^a Rabindra Satabarsiki Mahavidyalaya ^*  (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

bipods; monopods; particle size; photoluminescence (PL); recombination; strain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860008827     PISSN: 16744128     EISSN: 16744594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-011-0168-3     Document Type: Article

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