Defect induced changes in the linear and non-linear optical properties of ZnO nanotetrapods

Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 351-356

  Egblewogbe, Martin ^a,c   Anand, Benoy ^b   Podila, Ramakrishna ^c   Philip, Reji ^d   Sai, S Siva Sankara ^b   Rao, Apparao M ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Optical Limiting; Photoluminescence; Three Photon Absorption; ZnO Nanotetrapods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871552228     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2012.1089     Document Type: Article

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