Multifunctional Au-ZnO plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced UV photodetector and room temperature NO sensing devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gogurla, Narendar ^a   Sinha, Arun Kumar ^a   Santra, Sumita ^a   Manna, Santanu ^a   Ray, Samit Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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EID: 84923315583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06483     Document Type: Article

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