Research Letters in Nanotechnology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 217510, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/217510
Research Letter

Photo- and Electrochromic Properties of Activated Reactive Evaporated MoO3 Thin Films Grown on Flexible Substrates

K. Hari Krishna,1 O. M. Hussain,1 and C. Guillen2

1Thin Film Laboratory, Department of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati 517 502, India
2Department of Energy, CIEMAT, Avenida Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Received 6 July 2008; Accepted 12 September 2008

Academic Editor: Andrei Kolmakov

Copyright © 2008 K. Hari Krishna et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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