Effect of AZO substrates on self-seeded electrochemical growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays and their optical properties

Journal of Nanomaterials

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Peic A ^a   Dimopoulos, T ^a   Resel, R ^b   Abermann, S ^a   Postl, M ^c   List, E J W ^b,c   Bruckl H ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft mbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL GROWTH; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; GOOD OPTICAL QUALITY; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH CONDITIONS; GROWTH HABIT; INTERFACIAL QUALITIES; LARGE ASPECT RATIO; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO-STRUCTURED; SEED LAYER; SELF SEEDING; SELF-SEEDED; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SINGLE-STEP; THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; VERTICAL GROWTH; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WURTZITES; ZNO;

ALUMINUM; ASPECT RATIO; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84867815260     PISSN: 16874110     EISSN: 16874129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/457904     Document Type: Article

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