Photocatalytic and magnetic properties of Zn1-xCrxO nanocomposites prepared by a co-precipitation method

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 142-151

  Kumar, Khanesh ^a,b   Chitkara, Mansi ^a   Sandhu, Inderjit Singh ^a,b   Mehta, Devinder ^c   Kumar, Sanjeev ^d  

^a CHITKARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b I K GUJRAL PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College   (India)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Doping; Magnetic measurements; Nano structures

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARRIER MOBILITY; CATALYSIS; CHROMIUM METALLOGRAPHY; COPRECIPITATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETISM; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; X RAYS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE; ZNS NANOPARTICLES;

CHEMICAL CO-PRECIPITATION; COPRECIPITATION METHOD; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; OPTIMUM CONCENTRATION; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE CARRIERS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; UV VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETER;

CHROMIUM;

EID: 84908568769     PISSN: 13698001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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