Publications producing literal thin-film material forms — by spray pyrolysis, sputter deposition, or sol-gel dip coating — regardless of the specific deposition route, useful for browsing across every thin-film technique at once.
Increasing iron-dopant concentration drives a clear shape transition in spray-deposited ZnO from rounded nanospheres to elongated nanorods, narrowing the optical band gap along the way.
A sputtered zinc oxide film was expected to be uniform. Its unexpected colors revealed hidden differences in structure, composition, electrical behavior, and gas-sensing performance across a single glass slide.
