Probing the dominance of interstitial oxygen defects in ZnO nanoparticles through structural and optical characterizations

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 9 PART B, 2014, Pages 14569-14578

  Sahai, Anshuman ^a   Goswami, Navendu ^a  

^a JAYPEE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

B. Defects; B. Spectroscopy; C. Optical properties; D. ZnO

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; ZNO;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84905909824     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.06.041     Document Type: Article

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