Fabrication of erbium-doped spherical-like ZnO hierarchical nanostructures with enhanced visible light-driven photocatalytic activity

Materials Letters

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-4

  Sin, Jin Chung ^a   Lam, Sze Mun ^a   Lee, Keat Teong ^a   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Nanocrystalline materials; Optical materials and properties; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SOLUTION ROUTE; DIFFUSE REFLECTION SPECTRA; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; ER-DOPING; ERBIUM DOPED; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIERARCHICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; RED SHIFT; SURFACTANT-FREE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OBSERVATION; VISIBLE EMISSIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; ZNO;

FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

ERBIUM;

EID: 84870156155     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2012.09.049     Document Type: Article

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