Chemical origin of the yellow luminescence in GaN

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 5867-5874

  Kucheyev, S O ^a   Toth, M ^b   Phillips, M R ^b   Williams, J S ^a   Jagadish, C ^a   Li, G ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Ledex Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE SHIFT; BLUE-SHIFTED; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ORIGIN; EXCITATION DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; NONRADIATIVE RECOMBINATION CENTERS; WURTZITE GAN; YELLOW LUMINESCENCE;

GALLIUM NITRIDE; ION BOMBARDMENT; ION IMPLANTATION; ZINC SULFIDE;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0036572579     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1467605     Document Type: Article

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