Cu-doped ZnO nanorod arrays: The effects of copper precursor and concentration

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Babikier, Musbah ^a   Wang, Dunbo ^a   Wang, Jinzhong ^a   Li, Qian ^a   Sun, Jianming ^a   Yan, Yuan ^a   Yu, Qingjiang ^a   Jiao, Shujie ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Doping; Hydrothermal crystal growth; Nanostructures; Photoluminescence; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

BLUE-GREEN EMISSIONS; COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; COPPER PRECURSORS; HEXAGONAL WURTZITE; HYDROTHERMAL CRYSTAL GROWTH; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM;

NANORODS;

EID: 84903945448     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-199     Document Type: Article

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