Growth mechanism of ZnO nanostructures for ultra-high piezoelectric d33 coefficient

Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 319-327

  Ghosh, Moumita ^a   Rao, Mohan G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Current voltage (I V) characteristic; Nanostructures; Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM); Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); X ray diffraction (XRD); ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887689398     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2013.1134     Document Type: Review

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