Developing seedless growth of ZnO micro/nanowire arrays towards ZnO/FeS2/CuI P-I-N photodiode application

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Zhi ^a,b   Wang, Minqiang ^a   Shukla, Sudhanshu ^b,c   Zhu, Yue ^b   Deng, Jianping ^a   Ge, Hu ^c   Wang, Xingzhi ^b   Xiong, Qihua ^b,d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84935914875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11377     Document Type: Article

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