Low-Temperature Preparation of Ag-Doped ZnO Nanowire Arrays, DFT Study, and Application to Light-Emitting Diode

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 11871-11880

  Pauporté, Thierry ^a   Lupan, Oleg ^a,b   Zhang, Jie ^a   Tugsuz, Tugba ^a   Ciofini, Ilaria ^a   Labat, Frédéric ^a   Viana, Bruno ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA   (Moldova)

Author keywords

Ag doping; DFT modeling; electrodeposition; light emitting diode; UV blue emission; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ENERGY GAP; LATTICE THEORY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ADDITIVE CONCENTRATIONS; AG DOPING; BLUE EMISSION; DFT MODELING; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE PREPARATION; VERTICALLY ALIGNED NANOWIRES; ZNO;

SILVER;

EID: 84935896031     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01496     Document Type: Article

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