Multistage effect in enhancing the field emission behaviour of ZnO branched nanostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Sugavaneshwar, R P ^a   Nanda, Karuna Kar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE;

BRANCHED NANOSTRUCTURES; BRANCHED STRUCTURES; FOURTH GENERATION; NUMBER OF BRANCHES; SECOND GENERATION; THIRD GENERATION; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES; ZNO NANOWIRES;

FIELD EMISSION;

EID: 84902491400     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4881595     Document Type: Article

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