Luminescence properties of nitrogen-doped ZnO

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 13693-13696

  Stavale, Fernando ^a,b   Pascua, Leandro ^a   Nilius, Niklas ^a,c   Freund, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DEFECTS; GOLD; LUMINESCENCE; NITROGEN; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ZINC OXIDE;

BAND RECOMBINATION; DEFECT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN IMPURITY; NITROGEN INCORPORATION; OXIDE LATTICES; REDUCING CONDITIONS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84907996644     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5035536     Document Type: Article

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