Structural and optical investigations of In doped ZnO binary compound

Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 159-164

  Al Douri, Yarub ^a   Reshak, Ali H ^a,b   Ahmed, Waleed K ^c   Ghazai, Alaa J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THI QAR   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Analysis; Chemical synthesis; Doping; Optical properties; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899930904     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2014.1159     Document Type: Article

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