Production of pristine, sulfur-coated and silicon-alloyed germanium nanoparticles via laser pyrolysis

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 30, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Seongbeom ^a,b   Park, Song Yi ^a   Jeong, Jaeki ^a   Kim, Gi Hwan ^a   Rohani, Parham ^b   Kim, Dong Suk ^c   Swihart, Mark T ^b   Kim, Jin Young ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

germanium nanoparticle; laser pyrolysis; nanoparticle production

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; SULFUR;

COMMERCIAL-SCALE PRODUCTION; DRY POWDERS; HIGH PURITY; KEY PROCESS; LASER INTENSITIES; LASER PYROLYSIS; NANO-PARTICLE PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLE (NPS);

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84937019846     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/30/305703     Document Type: Article

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