Improved sensitivity of polychlorinated-biphenyl-orientated porous-ZnO surface photovoltage sensors from chemisorption-formed ZnO-CuPc composites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Mingtao ^a   Meng, Guowen ^a,b   Huang, Qing ^c   Zhang, Shile ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84896756793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04284     Document Type: Article

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