Significant enhancement of UV emission in ZnO nanorods subject to Ga+ ion beam irradiation

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1857-1864

  Yadian, Boluo ^a   Chen, Rui ^b   Liu, Hai ^a   Sun, Handong ^b   Liu, Qing ^a   Gan, Chee Lip ^a   Kun, Zhou ^c   Zhao, Chunwang ^d   Zhu, Bin ^e   Huang, Yizhong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ga+ ion beam; photoluminescence enhancement; UV emission; ZnO nanorods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937516301     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0693-7     Document Type: Article

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