Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured ZnO multilayer grown by DC magnetron sputtering

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 602, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-116

  Shirazi, Marzieh ^a   Hosseinnejad, M T ^b   Zendehnam, Akbar ^c   Ghoranneviss, Mahmood ^b   Reza Etaati, G ^d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

AFM; Magnetron sputtering; PL; XRD; ZnO multilayer

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COATINGS; DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLIC FILMS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL FILMS; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZINC; ZINC COATINGS;

AFM; DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PL; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; XRD; ZNO;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84897400443     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.03.029     Document Type: Article

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