Long-wavelength infrared (∼10-15 μm) electroluminescence from Sb-based interband cascade devices

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 97-101

  Zhang, D ^a   Dupont, E ^b   Yang, R Q ^a,c   Liu, H C ^b   Lin, C H ^a   Buchanan, M ^b   Pei, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c QET Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK (DFB); FAST PHONON SCATTERING; QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0003162977     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000097     Document Type: Article

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