Spray-deposited nanocrystalline WO3 thin films prepared using tungsten hexachloride dissolved in N-N dimethylformamide and influence of in doping on their structural, optical and electrical properties

Electronic Materials Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 401-410

  Mukherjee, Ramnayan ^a   Kushwaha, Ajay ^b   Sahay, P P ^a  

^a MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

electrical properties; spray pyrolysis; structural and optical properties

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INDIUM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPRAY PYROLYSIS; THIN FILMS; TUNGSTEN;

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; CHEMICAL SPRAY PYROLYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NONSPHERICAL GRAINS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84896499344     PISSN: 17388090     EISSN: 20936788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13391-013-3221-0     Document Type: Article

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