Investigations on structural and optical properties of ZnO and ZnO:Co nanoparticles under dense electronic excitations

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 107, 2014, Pages 62123-62131

  Kumar, Shiv ^a   Asokan, Kandasami ^b   Singh, Ranjan Kumar ^a   Chatterjee, Sandip ^c   Kanjilal, Dinakar ^b   Ghosh, Anup Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; RIETVELD REFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TENSILE STRAIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

ABSORPTION AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; DENSE ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SWIFT HEAVY ION IRRADIATION; SWIFT HEAVY ION IRRADIATIONS (SHI); TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84912105666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra09937k     Document Type: Article

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