AZO thin films by sol-gel process for integrated optics

Coatings

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 126-139

  Znaidi, Lamia ^a   Touam, Tahar ^b   Vrel, Dominique ^a   Souded, Nacer ^a   Yahia, Sana Ben ^a   Brinza, Ovidiu ^a   Fischer, Alexis ^c   Boudrioua, Azzedine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Doped ZnO; Integrated optics; Optical properties; Sol gel; Texture coefficients; Thin films; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063854911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/coatings3030126     Document Type: Article

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