Impact of hydrogen concentrations on the impedance spectroscopic behavior of Pd-sensitized ZnO nanorods

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Kashif, Muhammad ^a   Ali, Md Eaqub ^b   Ali, Syed M Usman ^a   Hashim, Uda ^c   Abd Hamid, Sharifah Bee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Impedance behavior; Nyquist plot; Pd sensitized ZnO nanorods; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HYDROGEN; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANORODS; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; ZINC OXIDE;

ALTERNATING CURRENT IMPEDANCE; GRAIN BOUNDARY RESISTANCE; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; IMPEDANCE BEHAVIOR; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NYQUIST PLOTS; SPECTROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR; ZNO NANOROD;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84875164715     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-68     Document Type: Article

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