Structural and optical study of Ga3+ substitution in CuInS2 nanoparticles synthesized by a one-pot facile method

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 24670-24679

  Vahidshad, Yaser ^a   Nawaz Tahir, Muhammad ^b   Iraji Zad, Azam ^c   Mirkazemi, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Ghasemzadeh, Reza ^a   Huesmann, Hannah ^b   Tremel, Wolfgang ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMPOSITION RANGES; GALLIUM ACETYLACETONATE; INDIUM TRICHLORIDE; NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHESIS CONDITIONS; UV-VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPIES;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84949117718     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506584a     Document Type: Article

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