Probing on phase dependent luminescent properties of Al2O3 nanowires for their performance in ferroelectric liquid crystal

Materials Research Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Gangwar, Jitendra ^a,b   Chandran, Achu ^a   Joshi, Tilak ^a   Verma, Rajni ^a   Biradar, Ashok M ^a   Tripathi, Surya Kant ^b   Gupta, Bipin Kumar ^a   Srivastava, Avanish Kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; FERROELECTRICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROOPTICAL RESPONSE; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; FORMATION MECHANISM; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; LUMINESCENT PROPERTY; PHASE DEPENDENT; TIME RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84954492130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/2/7/075013     Document Type: Article

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