All Solution-Based Fabrication of Copper Oxide Thin Film/Cobalt-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanowire Heterojunctions

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2497-2503

  Aksoy Akgul, Funda ^a,b   Akgul, Guvenc ^a,b   Turan, Rasit ^b   Emrah Unalan, Husnu ^b  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

nanomaterials; nanowires; sol gel; thin films

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COATINGS; COBALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIODES; FABRICATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; ZINC; ZINC COATINGS; ZINC OXIDE;

COPPER OXIDE THIN FILMS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; HETEROJUNCTION DIODES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; SOL-GEL SPIN COATING; SOLUTION-BASED PROCESS; ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84979488183     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jace.14249     Document Type: Article

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