Effect of thermal annealing on structure and optical band GAP of amorphous Se75-xTe25Sbx thin films by vacuuam evaporation technique

Journal of Ovonic Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-22

  Dwivedi, D K ^a   Pathak, H P ^a   Shukla, Nitesh ^a   Kumar, A ^b  

^a MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b HARCOURT BUTLER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Annealing; Chalcogenide glass; Crystallization; Optical band gap; XRD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896849029     PISSN: 18422403     EISSN: 15849953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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