Single-nanowire elecctrically driven lasers

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6920, 2003, Pages 241-245

  Duan, Xiangfeng ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

NANOWIRES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

LASER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037448573     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01353     Document Type: Article

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