Study of vanadium doping effects on structural, opto-thermal and optical properties of sprayed ZnO semiconductor layers

Optik

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3764-3770

  Mhamdi, A ^a   Boukhachem, A ^a   Madani, M ^a   Lachheb, H ^a   Boubaker, K ^a   Amlouk, A ^a   Amlouk, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Single oscillator model; Urbach tailing; Vanadium; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; VANADIUM; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC OXIDE;

C-AXIS ORIENTATIONS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; OPTICAL BAND GAP ENERGY; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; PYROLYSIS TECHNIQUE; SINGLE-OSCILLATOR MODEL; URBACH TAILINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84881378407     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2012.11.074     Document Type: Article

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