Photo-response of functionalized self-assembled graphene oxide on zinc oxide heterostructure to uv illumination

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Fouda, A N ^a,b   El Basaty, A B ^c   Eid, E A ^d  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Helwan University   (Egypt)

^d HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Graphene oxide on ZnO; Raman analysis; Self assembly; Structure modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007441169     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1221-8     Document Type: Note

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