Structural and thermal studies of silver nanoparticles and electrical transport study of their thin films

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Khan, Mohd Abdul Majeed ^a   Kumar, Sushil ^b   Ahamed, Maqusood ^a   Alrokayan, Salman A ^a   AlSalhi, Mohammad Saleh ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CHAUDHARY DEVI LAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; FESEM; FETEM; Silver nanoparticles; Thin film; XRD

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; DIPCOATING METHODS; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; FESEM; FETEM; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD-EMISSION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; LOCALIZED STATE; METALLIC SILVER; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTING BEHAVIOR; SILVER FILM; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER THIN FILMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TGA/DTA; THERMAL STUDY; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING; WEIGHT LOSS; WET CHEMICAL SOLUTION METHOD; XRD; XRD PATTERNS;

CHEMISORPTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; FILM PREPARATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILVER;

EID: 84862908704     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-434     Document Type: Article

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