Sodium-doped ZnO nanowires grown by high-pressure PLD and their acceptor-related optical properties

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2177-2184

  Qiu, Zhiwen ^a   Yang, Xiaopeng ^a   Han, Jun ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Cao, Bingqiang ^a   Dai, Zhengfei ^b   Duan, Guotao ^b   Cai, Weiping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; NANOWIRES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

ACCEPTOR LEVELS; ACCEPTOR-BOUND EXCITONS; GOLD PARTICLES; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SODIUM DOPING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM;

SODIUM;

EID: 84903395682     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jace.12941     Document Type: Article

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