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Well-aligned Vertically Oriented ZnO Nanorod Arrays and their Application in Inverted Small Molecule Solar Cells
Published on: April 25, 2018
Symmetry of zinc oxide nanostructures
Ivanka Milošević1, Vladan Stevanović, Pierre Tronc
1Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, POB 368, 11001 Belgrade, Serbiahttp://www.ff.bg.ac.yu/nanoscience.
Abstract:
The full geometrical symmetry groups of zinc oxide nanowires, nanotubes, nanosprings and nanorings are found and some physical properties which can be deduced from the symmetry are discussed: conserved quantum numbers and band degeneracies; dynamical representations, Raman and infrared active modes; piezoelectric tensor.
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