Optimized light emission from layered porous silicon structures

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 30, 1998, Pages 7107-7111

  Squire, Emma K ^a   Russell, Philip St J ^a   Snow, Paul A ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000622926     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007107     Document Type: Article

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