Effects of in-situ annealing on the structure and photoluminescence of ZnS thin films prepared by RF sputtering

SHI Gang; LI Ya-Jun; ZUO Shao-Hua; JIANG Jin-Chun; HU Gu-Jin; CHU Jun-Hao

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