Facile approach to ZnO nanorods by directly etching zinc substrate

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 485-488

  Lei, Ying ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Qu, Fengyu ^a   Li, Hui ^b   Wu, Xiang ^a  

^a HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Daqing Drilling Engineering Company   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH PARAMETERS; LOW TEMPERATURES; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANORODS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

ETCHING; NANORODS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

ALKALI; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOROD; NANOWIRE; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NANODEVICE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84866881278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2012.0067     Document Type: Article

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