Improved mechanical properties of SnO2:F thin film by structural modification

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 2557-2564

  Gao, Qian ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a,b   Li, Ming ^a   Lu, Peng ^c   Lai, Xinyu ^c   Li, Xiang ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Song, Chenlu ^a   Han, Gaorong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Special Glass Engineering Technology Research Center of Hainan Province   (China)

Author keywords

Flow rate; Fluorine doped tin oxide; Mechanical properties; Post heat treatment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOW RATE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HARDNESS; HEAT TREATMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANOMETALLICS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIN OXIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; GLASS SUBSTRATES; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LINES; METAL ORGANIC; POST HEAT-TREATMENT; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84889095328     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.08.082     Document Type: Review

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