The effect of annealing time and temperature on morphology and optical properties of ZnO nanostructures grown by a self-assembly method

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1039-1048

  Ghafouri, Vahid ^a   Ebrahimzad, Akbar ^a   Shariati, Mohsen ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Annealing; Photoluminescence; Resistive evaporation; Ultra thin nanobelt; UV emission; ZnO nanorod

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RESISTIVE EVAPORATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUBSTRATES; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

1-D NANOSTRUCTURES; EFFECT OF ANNEALING; HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLY METHOD; ULTRA-THIN; UV EMISSIONS; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOBELTS;

ANNEALING; EVAPORATION; GLASS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84888352425     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scient.2013.02.025     Document Type: Article

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