High-performance flexible ultraviolet photoconductors based on solution-processed ultrathin ZnO/Au nanoparticle composite films

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jin, Zhiwen ^a   Gao, Liang ^a   Zhou, Qing ^a   Wang, Jizheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

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EID: 84897822592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04268     Document Type: Article

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