Structural, morphological, optical and photoluminescence properties of Ag-doped zinc oxide thin films

Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-70

  Sapkal, Ramchandra T ^a   Shinde, Sambhaji S ^a   Babar, Appa R ^a   Moholkar, Annasaheb V ^a   Rajpure, Keshav Y ^a   Bhosale, Chandrakant H ^a  

^a SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ag:ZnO; Optical; Photoluminescence; SEM; XRD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863959157     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2012.1049     Document Type: Article

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