Microcavity light emitting diodes as efficient planar light emitters for telecommunication applications

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-14

  Ochoa, Daniel ^a   Houdré, Romuald ^a   Ilegems, Marc ^a   Hanke, Christian ^b   Borchert, Bernt ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brightness; Fabry P rot; Light emitting diode; Microcavity; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038052995     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0705(02)01291-4     Document Type: Article

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