Single gallium nitride nanowire lasers

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 106-110

  Johnson, Justin C ^a   Choi, Heon Jin ^a,b   Knutsen, Kelly P ^a   Schaller, Richard D ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a,b   Saykally, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

NANOWIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROCHEMISTRY; MINIATURIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0038137285     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat728     Document Type: Article

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