A facile synthesis of ZnO nanotubes and their hydrogen sensing properties

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 280, Issue , 2013, Pages 945-949

  Huang, Bohr Ran ^a   Lin, Jun Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hydrogen sensors; Oxygen vacancies; Selective self etching; Zinc oxide nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANORODS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; YARN; ZINC OXIDE;

FACILE SYNTHESIS; HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; HYDROGEN SENSING PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN SENSOR; HYDROGEN-SENSING; LOW TEMPERATURES; OXIDE NANOTUBES; SELF-ETCHING;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84879695474     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.05.112     Document Type: Article

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