Stimulated emission and optical gain in ZnO epilayers grown by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy with buffers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1469-1471

  Chen, Yefan ^a   Tuan, N T ^b   Segawa, Yusaburo ^b   Ko, Hang Ju ^a   Hong, Soon Ku ^a   Yao, Takafumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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EID: 0035848187     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1355665     Document Type: Article

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