Effect of neodymium doping on structure, electrical and optical properties of nanocrystalline ZnO

Materials Characterization

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  Roy, B ^a   Chakrabarty, S ^a   Mondal, O ^a   Pal, M ^b   Dutta, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Nanocrystalline Nd doped ZnO; Optical band gap

Indexed keywords

ANNEALED SAMPLES; CERAMIC ROUTE; CORRELATED BARRIER HOPPING MODELS; DC ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; DOMINANT MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; HOPPING CONDUCTION; HOST LATTICE; NANOCRYSTALLINE ZNO; ND-DOPED; NEODYMIUM DOPING; SINGLE PHASE; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

NEODYMIUM;

EID: 84861329765     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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