Gallium nitride based materials and their application for light emitting devices

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-50

  Keller, Stacia ^a   Steven P, Denbaars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LED light emitting diode; MOCVD metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039400323     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0286(98)80064-8     Document Type: Article

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