Mechanism for thermal quenching of luminescence in SiGe/Si structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy: Role of nonradiative defects

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 3676-3678

  Buyanova, I A ^a   Chen, W M ^a   Pozina, G ^a   Monemar, B ^a   Ni, W X ^a   Hansson, G V ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0011136672     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120478     Document Type: Article

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