Enhanced UV Emission from Silver/ZnO and Gold/ZnO Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Photoluminescence, Radioluminescence, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guidelli, E J ^a,b   Baffa, O ^b   Clarke, D R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 84941584521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14004     Document Type: Article

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