Surface wettability of titania thin films with increasing Nb content

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Mardare, Diana ^a   Yildiz, Abdullah ^b   Girtan, Mihaela ^c   Manole, Alina ^a   Dobromir, Marius ^a   Irimia, Mihaela ^a   Adomnitei, Catalin ^a   Cornei, Nicoleta ^a   Luca, Dumitru ^a  

^a ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^b YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS THIN FILMS; CONVERSION RATES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; OPTICAL BANDS; SMALL POLARON HOPPING MODELS; SMOOTH SURFACE; SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SURFACE WETTABILITY; TIO; TITANIA; TITANIA FILMS; TITANIA THIN FILMS; UV ILLUMINATIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTACT ANGLE; HYDROPHILICITY; PHOTOELECTRONS; SOL-GELS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; WETTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84867563829     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757007     Document Type: Article

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