Near-Field Optical Studies of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Laser Diodes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1073-1081

  Goldberg, B B ^a   Unlu M S ^a   Herzog, W D ^a   Ghaemi, H F ^a   Towe, E ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CURRENT AMPLIFIER; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL BEAM INDUCED CURRENT; NEAR FIELD PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0029491482     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.488684     Document Type: Article

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