Distribution of impurities and minor components in nanostructured conducting oxides

International Journal of Nanomanufacturing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-270

  Straumal, Boris ^a,b   Mazilkin, Andrei ^a   Straumal, Peter ^b   Myatiev, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MIREA RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conducting oxides; Grain boundaries; Nanostructures; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

CERIUM OXIDE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PEROVSKITE; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WETTING; YTTRIUM OXIDE; ZINC OXIDE; ZIRCONIA;

BULK PHASE DIAGRAMS; CONDUCTING OXIDES; DOPED ZINC OXIDES; MINOR COMPONENTS; NANO-STRUCTURED; PEROVSKITE TYPE OXIDES; SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; SYNTHESIS METHOD;

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

EID: 84876822039     PISSN: 17469392     EISSN: 17469406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNM.2008.018948     Document Type: Article

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